How to subtract days from a date in Python

The timedelta object from the datetime module allows you to subtract any number of days from a date object.

In this example I always take the current date using the date.today() method.

Then I set a timedelta of 2 days and subtract it from the current_date.

from datetime import timedelta, date

current_date = date.today()

print(current_date)

past_date = current_date - timedelta(days=2)

print(past_date)

2020-04-27
2020-05-25

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