Datetime output from Nonetype to Dataframe

Question

there. I'm trying to write a webscraper using python and need to first create a column of dates. I've gotten the list I need, but it keeps coming out as NoneType. Any ideas on how to get this to work as a dataframe?

Relevant part of code:

import datetime
from datetime import date
date1 = '2019-01-01'
date2 = '2019-01-30'
start = datetime.datetime.strptime(date1,'%Y-%m-%d')
end = datetime.datetime.strptime(date2,'%Y-%m-%d')
step = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
while start <= end:
    daterange = print(start.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
    start += step   
type(daterange)

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Here

daterange = print(start.strftime('%Y%m%d'))

should be

daterange = start.strftime('%Y%m%d')

EXTRA: if you want to save the daterange:

import datetime
from datetime import date
date1 = '2019-01-01'
date2 = '2019-01-30'
daterange_list = []
start = datetime.datetime.strptime(date1,'%Y-%m-%d')
end = datetime.datetime.strptime(date2,'%Y-%m-%d')
step = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
while start <= end:
    daterange = start.strftime('%Y%m%d')
    daterange_list.append(daterange)
    start += step   

type(daterange)
str

type(daterange_list) 
list