I was experimenting with something on Python and came across an interesting problem. I would like to enter the number of days and get the last and today's date in the range I specified. BUT, I only want the dates for the business days (Exclusing Holidays and Weekends). For example, I would like to do:
previous_days(10)
The output would give me the date that was 10 days ago and also today's date:
'2017-02-17' #10-days ago (because the 20th was President's day)
'2017-03-03' #Today's date
This is what I have been doing so far:
todaysDate = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") #outputs 2017-03-03
tenDaysAgo = datetime.strptime(todaysDate, "%Y-%m-%d").date() + timedelta(days=-12)
I had to do -12 to take into account the weekends. But the dates were incorrect this time because of President's day. Is there a library that exists in Python where I can enter the number of days I want and I can get the dates excluding weekends and holidays? If not, is there a more clever way for me to go about solving my issue?
