==== du on month end dates ==== Assuming: * month end = last weekday of the month Sample commands: * hard coded dates python -c "import pandas as pd; [print(d.strftime('%Y%m%d')) for d in pd.date_range('20200101', '20201231', freq='BM')]" | xargs du --max-depth=0 -h * using the current date python -c "import pandas as pd; from datetime import datetime; [print(d.strftime('%Y%m%d')) for d in pd.date_range('20200101', datetime.now(), freq='BM')]" | xargs du --max-depth=0 -h Notes: * If month end = last calendar day of the month, use freq = 'M' * freq = 'BMS', will give first weekday of the month. It stands for business month start. * freq = 'MS', will give first calendar day of the month. It stands for month start. Ref:- * complete list of frequency tags - https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/timeseries.html#offset-aliases * https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.date_range.html * https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.bdate_range.html - bdate_range() is similar to date_range() with different defaults. For example, it uses business day as the default frequency. But date_range does not have any default for 'freq'. Experiments:- % ipython Python 3.8.5 (default, Sep 4 2020, 07:30:14) Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information IPython 7.18.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help. In [1]: import pandas as pd In [2]: pd.date_range('20200101', '20201231', freq='MS') Out[2]: DatetimeIndex(['2020-01-01', '2020-02-01', '2020-03-01', '2020-04-01', '2020-05-01', '2020-06-01', '2020-07-01', '2020-08-01', '2020-09-01', '2020-10-01', '2020-11-01', '2020-12-01'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='MS') In [3]: pd.date_range('20200101', '20201231', freq='BMS') Out[3]: DatetimeIndex(['2020-01-01', '2020-02-03', '2020-03-02', '2020-04-01', '2020-05-01', '2020-06-01', '2020-07-01', '2020-08-03', '2020-09-01', '2020-10-01', '2020-11-02', '2020-12-01'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='BMS') In [4]: pd.date_range('20200101', '20201231', freq='M') Out[4]: DatetimeIndex(['2020-01-31', '2020-02-29', '2020-03-31', '2020-04-30', '2020-05-31', '2020-06-30', '2020-07-31', '2020-08-31', '2020-09-30', '2020-10-31', '2020-11-30', '2020-12-31'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='M') In [5]: pd.date_range('20200101', '20201231', freq='BM') Out[5]: DatetimeIndex(['2020-01-31', '2020-02-28', '2020-03-31', '2020-04-30', '2020-05-29', '2020-06-30', '2020-07-31', '2020-08-31', '2020-09-30', '2020-10-30', '2020-11-30', '2020-12-31'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='BM') In [6]: from datetime import datetime datetime.now() Out[6]: datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 26, 12, 54, 23, 530394) In [7]: pd.date_range('20200101', datetime.now(), freq='BM') Out[7]: DatetimeIndex(['2020-01-31', '2020-02-28', '2020-03-31', '2020-04-30', '2020-05-29', '2020-06-30', '2020-07-31', '2020-08-31', '2020-09-30'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='BM') In [8]: pd.date_range('20200101', '2020-08-15', freq='BM') Out[8]: DatetimeIndex(['2020-01-31', '2020-02-28', '2020-03-31', '2020-04-30', '2020-05-29', '2020-06-30', '2020-07-31'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='BM') tags | python list month ends in a date range, pd.date_range first weekday of the month, python print list one item per line