Python: get datetime for '3 years ago today'

Subtracting 365*3 days is wrong, of course--you're crossing a leap year more than half the time.

dt = datetime.now()
dt = dt.replace(year=dt.year-3)
# datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 1, 13, 2, 36, 274276)

ED: To get the leap-year issue right,

def subtract_years(dt, years):
    try:
        dt = dt.replace(year=dt.year-years)
    except ValueError:
        dt = dt.replace(year=dt.year-years, day=dt.day-1)
    return dt

import datetime
datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=3*365)

def add_years(dt, years):
    try:
        result = datetime.datetime(dt.year + years, dt.month, dt.day, dt.hour, dt.minute, dt.second, dt.microsecond, dt.tzinfo)
    except ValueError:
        result = datetime.datetime(dt.year + years, dt.month, dt.day - 1, dt.hour, dt.minute, dt.second, dt.microsecond, dt.tzinfo)
    return result

>>> add_years(datetime.datetime.now(), -3)
datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 1, 12, 2, 35, 22000)
>>> add_years(datetime.datetime(2008, 2, 29), -3)
datetime.datetime(2005, 2, 28, 0, 0)

If you need to be exact use the dateutil module to calculate relative dates

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

three_yrs_ago = datetime.now() - relativedelta(years=3)