您需要datetime模块。

>>> from datetime import datetime 
>>> datetime(2008,08,18) - datetime(2008,09,26) 
datetime.timedelta(4) 

另一个例子:

>>> import datetime 
>>> today = datetime.date.today() 
>>> print(today)
2008-09-01 
>>> last_year = datetime.date(2007, 9, 1) 
>>> print(today - last_year)
366 days, 0:00:00 

正如这里所指出的

如果你想自己编写计算代码，那么这里有一个函数，它将返回给定年、月和日的序数:

def ordinal(year, month, day):
    return ((year-1)*365 + (year-1)//4 - (year-1)//100 + (year-1)//400
         + [ 0,31,59,90,120,151,181,212,243,273,304,334][month - 1]
         + day
         + int(((year%4==0 and year%100!=0) or year%400==0) and month > 2))

此功能与日期兼容。datetime模块中的Toordinal方法。

两个日期的差日数如下所示:

print(ordinal(2021, 5, 10) - ordinal(2001, 9, 11))

它也可以很容易地用箭头完成:

import arrow

a = arrow.get('2017-05-09')
b = arrow.get('2017-05-11')

delta = (b-a)
print delta.days

参考:http://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

圣诞节前几天:

>>> import datetime
>>> today = datetime.date.today()
>>> someday = datetime.date(2008, 12, 25)
>>> diff = someday - today
>>> diff.days
86

这里有更多的算术。

以下是解决这个问题的三种方法:

from datetime import datetime

Now = datetime.now()
StartDate = datetime.strptime(str(Now.year) +'-01-01', '%Y-%m-%d')
NumberOfDays = (Now - StartDate)

print(NumberOfDays.days)                     # Starts at 0
print(datetime.now().timetuple().tm_yday)    # Starts at 1
print(Now.strftime('%j'))                    # Starts at 1

使用datetime函数:

from datetime import datetime
date_format = "%m/%d/%Y"
a = datetime.strptime('8/18/2008', date_format)
b = datetime.strptime('9/26/2008', date_format)
delta = b - a
print delta.days # that's it