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How to make a loop that validates the user-input dates based on the functions created?

I am not using any datetime module. I created my own functions to calculate the day, month, and year. I want to calculate the refunds based on the date. If the date is invalid, it should ask the user to try again until a date is true.
year = 0
month = 0
day = 0
money_owed = 0
def if_leap_year(year):
if (year % 400 == 0): return 366
elif (year % 100 == 0): return 365
elif (year % 4 == 0): return 366
else:
return 365
#print(if_leap_year(year))
def days_in_month(month, year):
if month in {1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12}:
return 31
if month == 2:
if if_leap_year(year):
return 29
return 28
return 30
#print(days_in_month(month, year))
def is_valid_date(year, month, day):
if days_in_month(month, year)<day:#checks if the given day is possible
given the month
return False
else:
return True
def days_left_in_year(month, day, year):
daysInMonth = [31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]
daysLeft = (if_leap_year(year) if month < 3 else 365) -
sum(daysInMonth[:month - 1]) - day
return daysLeft
def refund_period():
month = int(input("Enter the month of the year: "))
day = int(input("Enter the day of the year: "))
year = int(input("Enter the year to determine the number of days: "))
if is_valid_date(year , month , day):
money_owed = (days_left_in_year(month, day, year) /
if_leap_year(year)) * 278
return round(money_owed, 2)
else:
print("Your date is invalid, try again.")
while is_valid_date(year, month, day):
print('you will be refunded','$', + refund_period())
break
else:
print("Your date is invalid, try again.")
I am getting:
you will be refunded $ -8.38
even though the calculation shouldn't be performed since the date is invalid

You are setting year =0 , month =0, day = 0 in first loop.
Also the while is not clear. All your functions return an int so never validate if the date is correct.
Maybe you can create a function to validate the date something like this :
def is_valid_date(year , month , day):
if month <1 or month >12: #Validate a allowed month
return False
if day <1 or day > days_in_month(month, year): # validate an allowed day for the month
return False
return True
and you can change this function :
def refund_period():
month = int(input("Enter the month of the year: "))
day = int(input("Enter the day of the year: "))
year = int(input("Enter the year to determine the number of days: "))
if is_valid_date(year , month , day):
money_owed = (days_left_in_year(month, day, year) / if_leap_year(year)) * 278
return round(money_owed, 2)
else :
print("Your date is invalid, try again.")
Just a couple of comments:
You are getting the year, month, and day using input() so you don't need to create global variables for that.
you don't need to ask if if_leap_year(year) == 365 or 366 because this function returns 365 or 366 so you can use it directly when you calculate the money_owned, as I do.
Also you can use if_leap_year(year) instead
(if_leap_year(year) if month < 3 else 365) . That functions return 366 or 365, you dont need to validate again.
And you can use list comprehension for you daysInMonth variable inside days_left_in_year function :
daysInMonth = [days_in_month(m, year) for m in range(1,13)]

Your while loop is not comparing the function value but just checking if the object exists. Instead of conditions like while days_left_in_year(month, day, year), use conditions like while days_left_in_year(month, day, year)<30 (assuming you wanted to deny refunds on orders older than 30 days.
To validate dates, add the following function under your comment #print(days_in_month(month, year)):
def is_valid_date(year, month, day)
if days_in_month(month, year)<day:#checks if the given day is possible given the month
return False
else:
return True
then your condition should look something like this:
if ((is_valid_date(year, month, day) == True) and (month<13)):
print('you will be refunded','$', + refund_period())
else:
print("Your date is invalid, try again.")

Check the value of a key in a python dictionary

So, i have this dictionary:
days_per_month = {"01": 31, "02": 28,
"03": 31, "04": 30,
"05": 31, "06": 30,
"07": 31, "08": 31,
"09": 30, "10": 31,
"11": 30, "12": 31}
And this function:
def add_months(month):
"""
If needed, increment one day and check other parameters, such as months and years.
Requires:
- dmy str with a date represented as DD:MM:YY.
Ensures: str with the updated date represented as DD:MM:YY.
"""
if month == 2:
day = get_days(dmy)
if check_year(year) == "True":
if day > 29:
month += 1
day = 1
else:
if day > 28:
month += 1
day = 1
if days_per_month[month] = 31:
day = get_days(dmy)
if day > 31:
month += 1
day = 1
if days_per_month[month] = 30:
day = get_days(dmy)
if day > 30:
month += 1
day = 1
return month
Function get_days:
def get_days(dmy):
"""Get the number of days from a DD:MM:YY date representation.
Requires: dmy str with a date represented as DD:MM:YY.
Ensures: int with the number of days
"""
return int(dmy.split(':')[0])
Function check_year:
def check_year(year):
"""
Checks if the current year is a leap year or not.
Requires: year str with the year.
Ensures: 'True' if year is leap year; 'False' if year isn't a leap year.
"""
return year % 4 == 0 and (year % 100 != 0 or year % 400 == 0)
Here is what I'm trying to do: I have a previous function where I increment x minutes to a certain time, let's call it y. Imagine that y = "23:56" and x = "5", 23:56 + 5 = 24:01. So, I have another function that increments one day on the date when this happens.
Now I'm trying to finish my function that changes THE MONTH. For example:
y = 23:56 and x = 5, == 24:01. However the previous date was 31/12, and now it is 32/12: I incremented a day with my previous function, but now I have to also change the month with my function add_months. So, I check my days_per_month dictionary and try to find the month(the key in the dictionary)'s value, so I can have the max number of days of that month. I think that's how I'm supposed to do it, but I keep getting this error:
if days_per_month[month] = 31:
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
if days_per_month[month] = 30:
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
What am I doing wrong?
Obs1 - python 3.2
Obs2 - if you have any suggestion to improve any of my functions, please tell me!

your basic problem is that you try to assign a value and not to compare it. use
if days_per_month[month] == 31: instead of if days_per_month[month] = 31:
However i would suggest using datetime like this:
from datetime import *
a=datetime(2017,2,28,23,56,00)
b=a+timedelta(minutes=5)
what I do is initialize a with the Date 28.02.2017 23:56:00 and then add 5 minutes to this datetime and get the Date 01.03.2017 00:01:00 in b

Making a time adding function in python

I'm trying to build a function that recieves a date and adds days, updating everything in case it changes, so far i've come up with this:
def addnewDate(date, numberOfDays):
date = date.split(":")
day = int(date[0])
month = int(date[1])
year = int(date[2])
new_days = 0
l = 0
l1 = 28
l2 = 30
l3 = 31
#l's are the accordingly days of the month
while numberOfDays > l:
numberOfDays = numberOfDays - l
if month != 12:
month += 1
else:
month = 1
year += 1
if month in [1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12]:
l = l3
elif month in [4, 6, 9, 11]:
l = l2
else:
l = l1
return str(day) + ':' + str(month) + ':' + str(year) #i'll deal
#with fact that it doesn't put the 0's in the < 10 digits later
Desired output:
addnewDate('29:12:2016', 5):
'03:01:2017'
I think the problem is with either the variables, or the position i'm using them in, kinda lost though..
Thanks in advance!
p.s I can't use python build in functions :)

Since you cannot use standard library, here's my attempt. I hope I did not forget anything.
define a table for month lengths
tweak it if leap year detected (every 4 year, but special cases)
work on zero-indexed days & months, much easier
add the number of days. If lesser that current month number of days, end, else, substract current month number of days and retry (while loop)
when last month reached, increase year
add 1 to day and month in the end
code:
def addnewDate(date, numberOfDays):
month_days = [31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]
date = date.split(":")
day = int(date[0])-1
month = int(date[1])-1
year = int(date[2])
if year%4==0 and year%400!=0:
month_days[1]+=1
new_days = 0
#l's are the accordingly days of the month
day += numberOfDays
nb_days_month = month_days[month]
done = False # since you don't want to use break, let's create a flag
while not done:
nb_days_month = month_days[month]
if day < nb_days_month:
done = True
else:
day -= nb_days_month
month += 1
if month==12:
year += 1
month = 0
return "{:02}:{:02}:{:04}".format(day+1,month+1,year)
test (may be not exhaustive):
for i in ("28:02:2000","28:02:2004","28:02:2005","31:12:2012","03:02:2015"):
print(addnewDate(i,2))
print(addnewDate(i,31))
result:
02:03:2000
31:03:2000
01:03:2004
30:03:2004
02:03:2005
31:03:2005
02:01:2013
31:01:2013
05:02:2015
06:03:2015
of course, this is just for fun. Else use time or datetime modules!

Python, calculating number of days between two dates return wrong value in one specific case

I wrote a program to calculate the number of days between two dates and it works fine except for one case. If I want to calculate the number of days between two dates and the end date is in February the number of days is not correct (exactly three days are missing)
Example:
Date 1: 2012,1,1
Date 2: 2012,2,28
Program returns 55 days (should be 58)
I guess there is an issue with the leap days but I don't get why this does not cause any wrong values for any other two dates and why the difference between the correct value and the value of my program is 3 days. My code example which should work as is can be found below. Any advice is appreciated.
daysOfMonths = [ 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]
# Count the number of leap years
def countLeapYears(year, month):
if month <= 2:
year = year - 1
return int(year/4 - year/100 + year/400 )
# Determine the number of days between 0/00/0000 and the two dates and calculate the difference
def daysBetweenDates(year1, month1, day1, year2, month2, day2):
days = 0
n1 = year1 * 365 + day1
for month in range (0, month1):
n1 += daysOfMonths[month]
n1 += countLeapYears(year1, month1)
n2 = year2 * 365 + day2
for month in range (0, month2):
n2 += daysOfMonths[month]
n2 += countLeapYears(year2, month2)
return n2 - n1
def test():
test_cases = [((2012,1,1,2012,2,28), 58),
((2011,6,30,2012,6,30), 366),
((2011,1,1,2012,8,8), 585 ),
((1900,1,1,1999,12,31), 36523)]
for (args, answer) in test_cases:
result = daysBetweenDates(*args)
if result != answer:
print "Test with data:", args, "failed"
else:
print "Test case passed!"
test()

You have an off-by-one error in these lines:
for month in range (0, month1):
...
for month in range (0, month2):
Lists are zero-indexed in Python, but months are one-indexed in your program. So the proper code is:
for month in range (month1 - 1)
...
for month in range (month2 - 1)

How do I calculate the date six months from the current date using the datetime Python module?

I am using the datetime Python module. I am looking to calculate the date 6 months from the current date. Could someone give me a little help doing this?
The reason I want to generate a date 6 months from the current date is to produce a review date. If the user enters data into the system it will have a review date of 6 months from the date they entered the data.

I found this solution to be good. (This uses the python-dateutil extension)
from datetime import date
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
six_months = date.today() + relativedelta(months=+6)
The advantage of this approach is that it takes care of issues with 28, 30, 31 days etc. This becomes very useful in handling business rules and scenarios (say invoice generation etc.)
$ date(2010,12,31)+relativedelta(months=+1)
datetime.date(2011, 1, 31)
$ date(2010,12,31)+relativedelta(months=+2)
datetime.date(2011, 2, 28)

Well, that depends what you mean by 6 months from the current date.
Using natural months:
inc = 6
year = year + (month + inc - 1) // 12
month = (month + inc - 1) % 12 + 1
Using a banker's definition, 6*30:
date += datetime.timedelta(6 * 30)

With Python 3.x you can do it like this:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from dateutil.relativedelta import *
date = datetime.now()
print(date)
# 2018-09-24 13:24:04.007620
date = date + relativedelta(months=+6)
print(date)
# 2019-03-24 13:24:04.007620
but you will need to install python-dateutil module:
pip install python-dateutil

So, here is an example of the dateutil.relativedelta which I found useful for iterating through the past year, skipping a month each time to the present date:
>>> import datetime
>>> from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
>>> today = datetime.datetime.today()
>>> month_count = 0
>>> while month_count < 12:
... day = today - relativedelta(months=month_count)
... print day
... month_count += 1
...
2010-07-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-06-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-05-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-04-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-03-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-02-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-01-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-12-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-11-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-10-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-09-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-08-07 10:51:45.187968
As with the other answers, you have to figure out what you actually mean by "6 months from now." If you mean "today's day of the month in the month six years in the future" then this would do:
datetime.datetime.now() + relativedelta(months=6)

For beginning of month to month calculation:
from datetime import timedelta
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
end_date = start_date + relativedelta(months=delta_period) + timedelta(days=-delta_period)

Python can use datautil package for that, Please see the example below
It's not Just limited to that, you can pass combination of days, Months and Years at the same time also.
import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
# subtract months
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_months = proc_dt + relativedelta(months=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_months)
# add months
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_months = proc_dt + relativedelta(months=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_months)
# subtract days:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_days = proc_dt + relativedelta(days=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_days)
# add days days:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_days = proc_dt + relativedelta(days=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_days)
# subtract years:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_years = proc_dt + relativedelta(years=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_years)
# add years:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_years = proc_dt + relativedelta(years=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_years)
Results:
2021-05-31
2021-11-30
2021-08-28
2021-09-03
2018-08-31
2024-08-31

This solution works correctly for December, which most of the answers on this page do not.
You need to first shift the months from a 1-based index (ie Jan = 1) to a 0-based index (ie Jan = 0) before using modulus ( % ) or integer division ( // ), otherwise November (11) plus 1 month gives you 12, which when finding the remainder ( 12 % 12 ) gives 0.
(And dont suggest "(month % 12) + 1" or Oct + 1 = december!)
def AddMonths(d,x):
newmonth = ((( d.month - 1) + x ) % 12 ) + 1
newyear = int(d.year + ((( d.month - 1) + x ) / 12 ))
return datetime.date( newyear, newmonth, d.day)
However ... This doesnt account for problem like Jan 31 + one month. So we go back to the OP - what do you mean by adding a month? One solution is to backtrack until you get to a valid day, given that most people would presume the last day of jan, plus one month, equals the last day of Feb.
This will work on negative numbers of months too.
Proof:
>>> import datetime
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),1)
datetime.date(2010, 9, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),4)
datetime.date(2010, 12, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),5)
datetime.date(2011, 1, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),13)
datetime.date(2011, 9, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),24)
datetime.date(2012, 8, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),-1)
datetime.date(2010, 7, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),0)
datetime.date(2010, 8, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),-12)
datetime.date(2009, 8, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),-8)
datetime.date(2009, 12, 25)
>>> AddMonths(datetime.datetime(2010,8,25),-7)
datetime.date(2010, 1, 25)>>>

What do you mean by "6 months"?
Is 2009-02-13 + 6 months == 2009-08-13? Or is it 2009-02-13 + 6*30 days?
import mx.DateTime as dt
#6 Months
dt.now()+dt.RelativeDateTime(months=6)
#result is '2009-08-13 16:28:00.84'
#6*30 days
dt.now()+dt.RelativeDateTime(days=30*6)
#result is '2009-08-12 16:30:03.35'
More info about mx.DateTime

This doesn't answer the specific question (using datetime only) but, given that others suggested the use of different modules, here there is a solution using pandas.
import datetime as dt
import pandas as pd
date = dt.date.today() - \
pd.offsets.DateOffset(months=6)
print(date)
2019-05-04 00:00:00
Which works as expected in leap years
date = dt.datetime(2019,8,29) - \
pd.offsets.DateOffset(months=6)
print(date)
2019-02-28 00:00:00

There's no direct way to do it with Python's datetime.
Check out the relativedelta type at python-dateutil. It allows you to specify a time delta in months.

I know this was for 6 months, however the answer shows in google for "adding months in python" if you are adding one month:
import calendar
date = datetime.date.today() //Or your date
datetime.timedelta(days=calendar.monthrange(date.year,date.month)[1])
this would count the days in the current month and add them to the current date, using 365/12 would ad 1/12 of a year can causes issues for short / long months if your iterating over the date.

Just use the timetuple method to extract the months, add your months and build a new dateobject. If there is a already existing method for this I do not know it.
import datetime
def in_the_future(months=1):
year, month, day = datetime.date.today().timetuple()[:3]
new_month = month + months
return datetime.date(year + (new_month / 12), (new_month % 12) or 12, day)
The API is a bit clumsy, but works as an example. Will also obviously not work on corner-cases like 2008-01-31 + 1 month. :)

Using Python standard libraries, i.e. without dateutil or others, and solving the 'February 31st' problem:
import datetime
import calendar
def add_months(date, months):
months_count = date.month + months
# Calculate the year
year = date.year + int(months_count / 12)
# Calculate the month
month = (months_count % 12)
if month == 0:
month = 12
# Calculate the day
day = date.day
last_day_of_month = calendar.monthrange(year, month)[1]
if day > last_day_of_month:
day = last_day_of_month
new_date = datetime.date(year, month, day)
return new_date
Testing:
>>>date = datetime.date(2018, 11, 30)
>>>print(date, add_months(date, 3))
(datetime.date(2018, 11, 30), datetime.date(2019, 2, 28))
>>>print(date, add_months(date, 14))
(datetime.date(2018, 12, 31), datetime.date(2020, 2, 29))

Dateutil package has implementation of such functionality. But be aware, that this will be naive, as others pointed already.

I have a better way to solve the 'February 31st' problem:
def add_months(start_date, months):
import calendar
year = start_date.year + (months / 12)
month = start_date.month + (months % 12)
day = start_date.day
if month > 12:
month = month % 12
year = year + 1
days_next = calendar.monthrange(year, month)[1]
if day > days_next:
day = days_next
return start_date.replace(year, month, day)
I think that it also works with negative numbers (to subtract months), but I haven't tested this very much.

A quick suggestion is Arrow
pip install arrow
>>> import arrow
>>> arrow.now().date()
datetime.date(2019, 6, 28)
>>> arrow.now().shift(months=6).date()
datetime.date(2019, 12, 28)

The QDate class of PyQt4 has an addmonths function.
>>>from PyQt4.QtCore import QDate
>>>dt = QDate(2009,12,31)
>>>required = dt.addMonths(6)
>>>required
PyQt4.QtCore.QDate(2010, 6, 30)
>>>required.toPyDate()
datetime.date(2010, 6, 30)

Modified the AddMonths() for use in Zope and handling invalid day numbers:
def AddMonths(d,x):
days_of_month = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]
newmonth = ((( d.month() - 1) + x ) % 12 ) + 1
newyear = d.year() + ((( d.month() - 1) + x ) // 12 )
if d.day() > days_of_month[newmonth-1]:
newday = days_of_month[newmonth-1]
else:
newday = d.day()
return DateTime( newyear, newmonth, newday)

import time
def add_month(start_time, months):
ret = time.strptime(start_time, '%Y-%m-%d')
t = list(ret)
t[1] += months
if t[1] > 12:
t[0] += 1 + int(months / 12)
t[1] %= 12
return int(time.mktime(tuple(t)))

Modified Johannes Wei's answer in the case 1new_month = 121. This works perfectly for me. The months could be positive or negative.
def addMonth(d,months=1):
year, month, day = d.timetuple()[:3]
new_month = month + months
return datetime.date(year + ((new_month-1) / 12), (new_month-1) % 12 +1, day)

How about this? Not using another library (dateutil) or timedelta?
building on vartec's answer I did this and I believe it works:
import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
six_months_from_today = datetime.date(today.year + (today.month + 6)/12, (today.month + 6) % 12, today.day)
I tried using timedelta, but because it is counting the days, 365/2 or 6*356/12 does not always translate to 6 months, but rather 182 days. e.g.
day = datetime.date(2015, 3, 10)
print day
>>> 2015-03-10
print (day + datetime.timedelta(6*365/12))
>>> 2015-09-08
I believe that we usually assume that 6 month's from a certain day will land on the same day of the month but 6 months later (i.e. 2015-03-10 --> 2015-09-10, Not 2015-09-08)
I hope you find this helpful.

import datetime
'''
Created on 2011-03-09
#author: tonydiep
'''
def add_business_months(start_date, months_to_add):
"""
Add months in the way business people think of months.
Jan 31, 2011 + 1 month = Feb 28, 2011 to business people
Method: Add the number of months, roll back the date until it becomes a valid date
"""
# determine year
years_change = months_to_add / 12
# determine if there is carryover from adding months
if (start_date.month + (months_to_add % 12) > 12 ):
years_change = years_change + 1
new_year = start_date.year + years_change
# determine month
work = months_to_add % 12
if 0 == work:
new_month = start_date.month
else:
new_month = (start_date.month + (work % 12)) % 12
if 0 == new_month:
new_month = 12
# determine day of the month
new_day = start_date.day
if(new_day in [31, 30, 29, 28]):
#user means end of the month
new_day = 31
new_date = None
while (None == new_date and 27 < new_day):
try:
new_date = start_date.replace(year=new_year, month=new_month, day=new_day)
except:
new_day = new_day - 1 #wind down until we get to a valid date
return new_date
if __name__ == '__main__':
#tests
dates = [datetime.date(2011, 1, 31),
datetime.date(2011, 2, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 3, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 4, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 5, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 6, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 7, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 8, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 9, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 10, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 11, 28),
datetime.date(2011, 12, 28),
]
months = range(1, 24)
for start_date in dates:
for m in months:
end_date = add_business_months(start_date, m)
print("%s\t%s\t%s" %(start_date, end_date, m))

Rework of an earlier answer by user417751. Maybe not so pythonic way, but it takes care of different month lengths and leap years. In this case 31 January 2012 + 1 month = 29 February 2012.
import datetime
import calendar
def add_mths(d, x):
newday = d.day
newmonth = (((d.month - 1) + x) % 12) + 1
newyear = d.year + (((d.month - 1) + x) // 12)
if newday > calendar.mdays[newmonth]:
newday = calendar.mdays[newmonth]
if newyear % 4 == 0 and newmonth == 2:
newday += 1
return datetime.date(newyear, newmonth, newday)

Yet another solution - hope someone will like it:
def add_months(d, months):
return d.replace(year=d.year+months//12).replace(month=(d.month+months)%12)
This solution doesn't work for days 29,30,31 for all cases, so more robust solution is needed (which is not so nice anymore :) ):
def add_months(d, months):
for i in range(4):
day = d.day - i
try:
return d.replace(day=day).replace(year=d.year+int(months)//12).replace(month=(d.month+int(months))%12)
except:
pass
raise Exception("should not happen")

From this answer, see parsedatetime. Code example follows. More details: unit test with many natural-language -> YYYY-MM-DD conversion examples, and apparent parsedatetime conversion challenges/bugs.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import time, calendar
from datetime import date
# from https://github.com/bear/parsedatetime
import parsedatetime as pdt
def print_todays_date():
todays_day_of_week = calendar.day_name[date.today().weekday()]
print "today's date = " + todays_day_of_week + ', ' + \
time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
def convert_date(natural_language_date):
cal = pdt.Calendar()
(struct_time_date, success) = cal.parse(natural_language_date)
if success:
formal_date = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', struct_time_date)
else:
formal_date = '(conversion failed)'
print '{0:12s} -> {1:10s}'.format(natural_language_date, formal_date)
print_todays_date()
convert_date('6 months')
The above code generates the following from a MacOSX machine:
$ ./parsedatetime_simple.py
today's date = Wednesday, 2015-05-13
6 months -> 2015-11-13
$

Here's a example which allows the user to decide how to return a date where the day is greater than the number of days in the month.
def add_months(date, months, endOfMonthBehaviour='RoundUp'):
assert endOfMonthBehaviour in ['RoundDown', 'RoundIn', 'RoundOut', 'RoundUp'], \
'Unknown end of month behaviour'
year = date.year + (date.month + months - 1) / 12
month = (date.month + months - 1) % 12 + 1
day = date.day
last = monthrange(year, month)[1]
if day > last:
if endOfMonthBehaviour == 'RoundDown' or \
endOfMonthBehaviour == 'RoundOut' and months < 0 or \
endOfMonthBehaviour == 'RoundIn' and months > 0:
day = last
elif endOfMonthBehaviour == 'RoundUp' or \
endOfMonthBehaviour == 'RoundOut' and months > 0 or \
endOfMonthBehaviour == 'RoundIn' and months < 0:
# we don't need to worry about incrementing the year
# because there will never be a day in December > 31
month += 1
day = 1
return datetime.date(year, month, day)
>>> from calendar import monthrange
>>> import datetime
>>> add_months(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 31), 1)
datetime.date(2016, 3, 1)
>>> add_months(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 31), -2)
datetime.date(2015, 12, 1)
>>> add_months(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 31), -2, 'RoundDown')
datetime.date(2015, 11, 30)

given that your datetime variable is called date:
date=datetime.datetime(year=date.year+int((date.month+6)/12),
month=(date.month+6)%13 + (1 if (date.month +
months>12) else 0), day=date.day)

General function to get next date after/before x months.
from datetime import date
def after_month(given_date, month):
yyyy = int(((given_date.year * 12 + given_date.month) + month)/12)
mm = int(((given_date.year * 12 + given_date.month) + month)%12)
if mm == 0:
yyyy -= 1
mm = 12
return given_date.replace(year=yyyy, month=mm)
if __name__ == "__main__":
today = date.today()
print(today)
for mm in [-12, -1, 0, 1, 2, 12, 20 ]:
next_date = after_month(today, mm)
print(next_date)

Im chiming in late, but
check out Ken Reitz Maya module,
https://github.com/kennethreitz/maya
something like this may help you, just change hours=1 to days=1 or years=1
>>> from maya import MayaInterval
# Create an event that is one hour long, starting now.
>>> event_start = maya.now()
>>> event_end = event_start.add(hours=1)
>>> event = MayaInterval(start=event_start, end=event_end)

The "python-dateutil" (external extension) is a good solution, but you can do it with build-in Python modules (datetime and datetime)
I made a short and simple code, to solve it (dealing with year, month and day)
(running: Python 3.8.2)
from datetime import datetime
from calendar import monthrange
# Time to increase (in months)
inc = 12
# Returns mod of the division for 12 (months)
month = ((datetime.now().month + inc) % 12) or 1
# Increase the division by 12 (months), if necessary (+ 12 months increase)
year = datetime.now().year + int((month + inc) / 12)
# (IF YOU DON'T NEED DAYS,CAN REMOVE THE BELOW CODE)
# Returns the same day in new month, or the maximum day of new month
day = min(datetime.now().day,monthrange(year, month)[1])
print("Year: {}, Month: {}, Day: {}".format(year, month, day))