I am doing this :
a = datetime().date()
after 10 days I am checking
if (a- datetime().date()) > 12:
But it is throwing up runtime error telling me that "Cannot compare datetime.delta with int"...
Any one have any idea how to work around this??
For backtesting, instead of using date(), best to use the current bar Timestamp with get_datetime('US/Eastern') or to increment a variable each day before opening bell.
This example code from Python Standard Library Tour...
from datetime import date
now = date.today()
now
datetime.date(2003, 12, 2)
now.strftime("%m-%d-%y. %d %b %Y is a %A on the %d day of %B.")
'12-02-03. 02 Dec 2003 is a Tuesday on the 02 day of December.'birthday = date(1964, 7, 31)
age = now - birthday
age.days
14368
There is also an example of incrementing a daily count variable in example code "Algorithm Framework For Robinhood Users" at end of the "Sample Algorithms" section in the Quantopian Help documentation.
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