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

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Date difference in days	date,beginner	2020-10-28T16:19:39+02:00	2020-10-28T16:19:39+02:00

Calculates the day difference between two dates.

• Subtract start from end and use datetime.timedelta.days to get the day difference.

def days_diff(start, end):
  return (end - start).days

from datetime import date

days_diff(date(2020, 10, 25), date(2020, 10, 28)) # 3