Generate Date Range in Python (Challenge)

Introduction

In Python, the datetime module provides classes for working with dates and times. One common task is to create a list of dates between two given dates. In this challenge, you will create a function that takes two dates as input and returns a list of all the dates between them.

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Date Range Challenge

Problem

Write a Python function called daterange(start, end) that takes two datetime.date objects as arguments and returns a list of all the dates between them. The list should include the start date but not the end date.

To solve this problem, you can follow these steps:

Use datetime.timedelta.days to get the number of days between start and end.

Use int() to convert the result to an integer and range() to iterate over each day.

Use a list comprehension and datetime.timedelta to create a list of datetime.date objects.

Example

from datetime import date daterange(date(2020, 10, 1), date(2020, 10, 5)) ## [date(2020, 10, 1), date(2020, 10, 2), date(2020, 10, 3), date(2020, 10, 4)]