从这个答案中，请参见parsedatetime。下面是代码示例。更多细节:使用许多自然语言-> YYYY-MM-DD转换示例进行单元测试，以及明显的parsedatetime转换挑战/bug。

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import time, calendar
from datetime import date

# from https://github.com/bear/parsedatetime
import parsedatetime as pdt

def print_todays_date():
    todays_day_of_week = calendar.day_name[date.today().weekday()]
    print "today's date = " + todays_day_of_week + ', ' + \
                              time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

def convert_date(natural_language_date):
    cal = pdt.Calendar()
    (struct_time_date, success) = cal.parse(natural_language_date)
    if success:
        formal_date = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', struct_time_date)
    else:
        formal_date = '(conversion failed)'
    print '{0:12s} -> {1:10s}'.format(natural_language_date, formal_date)

print_todays_date()
convert_date('6 months')

上面的代码从MacOSX机器生成以下内容:

$ ./parsedatetime_simple.py 
today's date = Wednesday, 2015-05-13
6 months     -> 2015-11-13
$ 

这并没有回答具体的问题(仅使用datetime)，但是，鉴于其他人建议使用不同的模块，这里有一个使用pandas的解决方案。

import datetime as dt
import pandas as pd

date = dt.date.today() - \
       pd.offsets.DateOffset(months=6)

print(date)

2019-05-04 00:00:00

在闰年哪种方式会正常工作

date = dt.datetime(2019,8,29) - \
       pd.offsets.DateOffset(months=6)
print(date)

2019-02-28 00:00:00

Python可以使用datautil包，请参阅下面的示例

它不仅限于此，你还可以同时通过日、月和年的组合。

import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

# subtract months
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_months = proc_dt + relativedelta(months=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_months)

# add months
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_months = proc_dt + relativedelta(months=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_months)

# subtract days:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_days = proc_dt + relativedelta(days=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_days)

# add days days:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_days = proc_dt + relativedelta(days=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_days)

# subtract years:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_minus_3_years = proc_dt + relativedelta(years=-3)
print(proc_dt_minus_3_years)

# add years:
proc_dt = datetime.date(2021,8,31)
proc_dt_plus_3_years = proc_dt + relativedelta(years=+3)
print(proc_dt_plus_3_years)

结果:

2021-05-31

2021-11-30

2021-08-28

2021-09-03

2018-08-31

2024-08-31

我的实现基于taleinat的答案:

import datetime
import calendar

def add_months(orig_date, month_count = 1):
    while month_count > 12:
        month_count -= 12
        orig_date = add_months(orig_date, 12)
    new_year = orig_date.year
    new_month = orig_date.month + month_count
    # note: in datetime.date, months go from 1 to 12
    if new_month > 12:
        new_year += 1
        new_month -= 12

    last_day_of_month = calendar.monthrange(new_year, new_month)[1]
    new_day = min(orig_date.day, last_day_of_month)

    return orig_date.replace(year=new_year, month=new_month, day=new_day)

有了这个功能，你可以添加任意多的月份。

from datetime import date
dt = date(2021, 1, 31)

print(add_months(dt, 49))

返回 2025-02-28

Dateutil包实现了这样的功能。但要知道，这将是天真的，因为其他人已经指出。

按月开始计算:

from datetime import timedelta
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

end_date = start_date + relativedelta(months=delta_period) + timedelta(days=-delta_period)