我有一个更好的办法来解决“2月31日”的问题:

def add_months(start_date, months):
    import calendar

    year = start_date.year + (months / 12)
    month = start_date.month + (months % 12)
    day = start_date.day

    if month > 12:
        month = month % 12
        year = year + 1

    days_next = calendar.monthrange(year, month)[1]
    if day > days_next:
        day = days_next

    return start_date.replace(year, month, day)

我认为它也适用于负数(减去月份)，但我还没有对此进行过多测试。

我使用这个函数来更改年和月，但保留日:

def replace_month_year(date1, year2, month2):
    try:
        date2 = date1.replace(month = month2, year = year2)
    except:
        date2 = datetime.date(year2, month2 + 1, 1) - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    return date2

你应该这样写:

new_year = my_date.year + (my_date.month + 6) / 12
new_month = (my_date.month + 6) % 12
new_date = replace_month_year(my_date, new_year, new_month)

Python可以使用datautil包，请参阅下面的示例

它不仅限于此，你还可以同时通过日、月和年的组合。

import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

# subtract months
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_months = proc_dt + relativedelta(months=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_months)

# add months
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_months = proc_dt + relativedelta(months=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_months)

# subtract days:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_days = proc_dt + relativedelta(days=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_days)

# add days days:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_days = proc_dt + relativedelta(days=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_days)

# subtract years:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_years = proc_dt + relativedelta(years=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_years)

# add years:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_years = proc_dt + relativedelta(years=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_years)

结果:

2021-05-31

2021-11-30

2021-08-28

2021-09-03

2018-08-31

2024-08-31

这里有一个dateutil的例子。relativedelta，我发现它对于迭代过去一年很有用，每次跳过一个月到现在的日期:

>>> import datetime
>>> from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
>>> today = datetime.datetime.today()
>>> month_count = 0
>>> while month_count < 12:
...  day = today - relativedelta(months=month_count)
...  print day
...  month_count += 1
... 
2010-07-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-06-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-05-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-04-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-03-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-02-07 10:51:45.187968
2010-01-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-12-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-11-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-10-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-09-07 10:51:45.187968
2009-08-07 10:51:45.187968

和其他答案一样，你必须弄清楚你说的“6个月后”到底是什么意思。如果你的意思是“六年后某个月的今天”，那么这个是:

datetime.datetime.now() + relativedelta(months=6)

另一种解决方案:计算下个月的天数总和，并将结果添加到当前日期。

import calendar
import datetime

def date_from_now(months):
    today = datetime.datetime.today()

    month = today.month
    year = today.year
    sum_days = 0

    for i in range(int(months)):
        month += 1

        if month == 13:
            month = 1
            year += 1

        sum_days += calendar.monthrange(year, month)[1]

    return datetime.date.today() + datetime.timedelta(sum_days)

print(date_from_now(12)) # if to day is 2017-01-01, output: 2019-01-01 

从这个答案中，请参见parsedatetime。下面是代码示例。更多细节:使用许多自然语言-> YYYY-MM-DD转换示例进行单元测试，以及明显的parsedatetime转换挑战/bug。

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import time, calendar
from datetime import date

# from https://github.com/bear/parsedatetime
import parsedatetime as pdt

def print_todays_date():
    todays_day_of_week = calendar.day_name[date.today().weekday()]
    print "today's date = " + todays_day_of_week + ', ' + \
                              time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

def convert_date(natural_language_date):
    cal = pdt.Calendar()
    (struct_time_date, success) = cal.parse(natural_language_date)
    if success:
        formal_date = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', struct_time_date)
    else:
        formal_date = '(conversion failed)'
    print '{0:12s} -> {1:10s}'.format(natural_language_date, formal_date)

print_todays_date()
convert_date('6 months')

上面的代码从MacOSX机器生成以下内容:

$ ./parsedatetime_simple.py 
today's date = Wednesday, 2015-05-13
6 months     -> 2015-11-13
$