How to get last day of month using python

you use calendar.monthrange() function but before that you import calendar library.

Required Parameter:

1. Year

2. Month

calendar.monthrange(Year,Month) return two integer value.

calendar.monthrange(Year,Month)[0] - Starting day of number of week of this month.

It return integer value for day like

calendar.monthrange(Year,Month)[1] - Last day of month.

For Example-calendar.monthrange(2020,6)

Output is-(0,30 )

Fetching Lastday of Month code:

import calendar
#calendar.monthrange() for last day of month here we put second value of array [1]
lastday_of_month = calendar.monthrange(2020,6)[1]
print('Last Day of Month is'+' ' + str(lastday_of_month))

I hope this is useful for you.

if you want to learn calendar library follow this link:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/calendar.html

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Rajanikant Hawaldar6y ago
Accepted answer
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42950/how-to-get-the-last-day-of-the-month https://www.tutorialspoint.com/How-to-get-last-day-of-a-month-in-Python
Sagar Lad5y ago
Hi Guru,

import calendar
>>> calendar.monthrange(2002, 1)
(1, 31)
>>> calendar.monthrange(2008, 2) # leap years are handled correctly
(4, 29)
Akshay Shedwad6y ago
you use calendar.monthrange() function but before that you import calendar library.

Required Parameter:

1. Year
2. Month

calendar.monthrange(Year,Month) return two integer value.

calendar.monthrange(Year,Month)[0] - Starting day of number of week of this month.
It return integer value for day like
Day Value
Monday 0
Tuesday 1
Wednesday 2
Thursday 3
Friday 4
Saturday 5
Sunday 6

calendar.monthrange(Year,Month)[1] - Last day of month.

For Example-calendar.monthrange(2020,6)

Output is-(0,30 )

Fetching Lastday of Month code:
import calendar

#calendar.monthrange() for last day of month here we put second value of array [1]
lastday_of_month = calendar.monthrange(2020,6)[1]

print('Last Day of Month is'+' ' + str(lastday_of_month))
I hope this is useful for you.

if you want to learn calendar library follow this link:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/calendar.html