How to get the date N days ago in Python

from datetime import datetime, timedelta N = 2 date_N_days_ago = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=N) print datetime.now() print date_N_days_ago 

Results:

2010-10-16 00:06:06.000201
2010-10-14 00:06:06.000107 

For more information see the timedelta documentation