As an input to an API request I need to get yesterday's date as a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD. I have a working version which is: yesterday = datetime.date.fromordinal(datetime.date.today().toordinal()-1) report_date = str(yesterday.year) + \ ('-' if len(str(yesterday.month)) == 2 else '-0') + str(yesterday.month) + \ ('-' if len(str(yesterday.day)) == 2 else '-0') + str(yesterday.day) There must be a more elegant way to do this, interested for educational purposes as much as anything else! Continue reading...
