[FIXED] How to get a specific date from the previous month given the current date in python?

Issue

I want to get the 20th of previous month, given the current_date() I am trying to use time.strftime but not able to subtract the value from it.

timestr = time.strftime("%Y-(%m-1)%d")

This is giving me error. The expected output is 2019-03-20 if my current_date is in April. Not sure how to go about it.

I read the posts from SO and most of them address getting the first day / last day of the month. Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

from datetime import date, timedelta
today = date.today()
last_day_prev_month = today - timedelta(days=today.day)
twenty_prev_month = last_day_prev_month.replace(day=20)
print(twenty_prev_month)  # 2019-03-20

Answered By - David Robles