Question

Is there Python/Django equivalent of Ruby on Rails

 x.days.from_now
 x.years.from_now
 Time.now + 7.days ???

working with time and date seems a lot easier in Rails!!

Answer 1

You can use datetime.datetime.now to get the current date and time and datetime.timedelta to create a datetime object offset from the current time however you like. For example:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

now = datetime.now()
seven_days_from_now = now + timedelta(days=7)
print now, seven_days_from_now