Subtract five days from current dateΒΆ

date.today() - timedelta(5)

Subtract five days from current date.
Sample Date :
Current Date : 2015-06-22
5 days before Current Date : 2015-06-17
from datetime import date, timedelta

dt = date.today() - timedelta(5)

print('Current Date :', date.today())
print('5 days before Current Date :', dt)

Output:

Current Date : 2017-05-05
5 days before Current Date : 2017-04-30