30-seconds-of-code/snippets/days_ago.md

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days_ago	date,intermediate

Calculates the date of n days ago from today.

• Use datetime.date.today() to get the current day.
• Use datetime.timedelta to subtract n days from today's date.

from datetime import timedelta, date

def days_ago(n):
  return date.today() - timedelta(n)

days_ago(5) # date(2020, 10, 23)