datetime module question

[buran]

i want to make a list of days and dates for the current month

Is there a way to ... display the past 5 and upcoming 5 days

these are fairly different requiremets
You can easily generate dates between t-5 and t=5

from datetime import date, timedelta

def dates(offset=5):
    tday = date.today()
    for delta in range(-offset, offset+1):
        yield (tday + timedelta(days=delta)).strftime('%a %d %B %Y')

print(list(dates()))