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---
title: Date range
tags: date
expertise: intermediate
author: maciv
firstSeen: 2020-10-28T16:19:14+02:00
lastUpdated: 2021-01-07T23:30:28+02:00
---
Creates a list of dates between `start` (inclusive) and `end` (not inclusive).
- Use `datetime.timedelta.days` to get the days between `start` and `end`.
- Use `int()` to convert the result to an integer and `range()` to iterate over each day.
- Use a list comprehension and `datetime.timedelta` to create a list of `datetime.date` objects.
```py
from datetime import timedelta, date
def daterange(start, end):
return [start + timedelta(n) for n in range(int((end - start).days))]
```
```py
from datetime import date
daterange(date(2020, 10, 1), date(2020, 10, 5))
# [date(2020, 10, 1), date(2020, 10, 2), date(2020, 10, 3), date(2020, 10, 4)]
```