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Custom Day Spans with Arrow
Arrow is a wonderful library for python that makes the tedium of date and time conversions a relative joy when compared with the alternatives. I was recently tasked with a project that required splitting up time between given start and end dates in chunks of n-many days each, starting at an arbitrary point in time. At first, I figured this would be a perfect use of Arrow’s range and span functions.
I first tried span_range, but quickly realized that this would round the start datetime back to the beginning of the day our point of time is in:
Alright, not ideal, let’s try just range and I’ll offset the end myself, easy enough:
Well, that looks better, but range doesn’t accept strings like “5 days”. So to do arbitrary day ranges, I would have to compress this list. At this point, I took a step back from the functions I had set out to use and looked back at the rest of the Arrow API and figured out a pretty easy way to use a function I’ve already been leveraging to do the job, replace.
Hey it works! And it’s readable! It pays to read the docs.
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