Recursive function Dates

[Adelton]

Hi There,

I am new to python and I am trying to create a recursive function which will return all the dates between 2017,2,28 and 2017,3,10.I have set a base case with the start date and the end date 2017,3,10.I am not too sure where I am going wrong.Your help would be much appreciated.

from datetime import date,timedelta,datetime
def daterec(start,end,timedelta):
  if start == date(2017,2,28):
    return start
    return daterec(start + timedelta(days=1)
for dat in daterec(date(2017, 2, 28), date(2017, 3, 10), timedelta(days=1)):
    print(dat)

[ichabod801]

Please use Python tags around your code. I added it for you this time.

The return statement stops a function. So when daterec hits return start it stops processing and never gets to the second return statement. Also, you need another close-parentheses at the end of your second return statement.

Why the if condition? Your function will only work if start is 2/28/2017. If that's what you want, I would remove the start parameter and define start within the function.

[Larz60+]

Why do you need a list of dates?
If your goal is to use them to find something between two dates, there are
much simpler ways to do this.