How to get a previous year in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the previous year in Python.

Getting the previous year

To get the previous year in Python, first we need to access the current year using the date.today().year property and subtract it with minus -1.

The year property returns the current year in four-digit(2023) string format according to the user’s local time, to get the previous year we are subtracting it with -1.

Here is an example:

from datetime import date

previous_year = date.today().year -1
print(previous_year)

Output:

2022

In the example above, first we imported date class from the datetime module then accessed the current year using the date.today().year for previous year we subtracted it with minus -1.