tkcalendar DateEntry mindate & maxdate options to enable range of dates for user selection

In our DateEntry we can use the option mindate and maxdate to disable any dates before mindate and after maxdate.
Here from 3^rd Aug 2021 ( minimum date ) to 25^th Aug 2021 ( maximum date ) are available for selection.
DateEntry mindate and maxdate

DateEntry Maxdate Mindate options to dynamically change the available date range in Tkinter GUI

import tkinter  as tk 
from tkcalendar import DateEntry
from datetime import date
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("320x210")  

dt1=date(2021,8,3) # Minimum date for selection 
dt2=date(2021,8,25) # Maximum date for selection
cal=DateEntry(my_w,selectmode='day', mindate=dt1, maxdate=dt2)
cal.grid(row=1,column=1,padx=15)

my_w.mainloop()

Today's Date with mindate & maxdate

We can allow to select all future dates including today by using mindate option.

import tkinter  as tk 
from tkcalendar import DateEntry
from datetime import datetime
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("320x210")  
date_today = datetime.now() # today's date 

cal=DateEntry(my_w,selectmode='day', mindate=date_today)
cal.grid(row=1,column=1,padx=15)

my_w.mainloop()

We can disable selection of all future dates by using maxdate option

cal=DateEntry(my_w,selectmode='day', maxdate=date_today)

Using timedelta

Select all days till tomorrow ( use timedelta )

from datetime import timedelta,date,datetime
dt = date.today() + timedelta(days=1) # Tomorrow 
cal=DateEntry(my_w,selectmode='day',maxdate=dt)

Select all days starting from yesterday

dt = date.today() + timedelta(days=-1) # Yesterday 
cal=DateEntry(my_w,selectmode='day',mindate=dt)

Using relativedelta

More about relativedelta.
The variable dt can be used to set mindate or maxdate based on requirment

from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
from datetime import date
dt = date.today() + relativedelta(days=1))# tomorrow

Check how future dates are enabled using relativedelta.

import tkinter  as tk 
from tkcalendar import DateEntry
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
from datetime import date
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("320x210")  
dt = date.today() + relativedelta(years=1,months=2,days=3) 
cal=DateEntry(my_w,selectmode='day',maxdate=dt,mindate=date.today())
cal.grid(row=1,column=1,padx=15)

my_w.mainloop()

Dynamic minimum date and maximum date

Once the user clicks a date, it became minimum date ( or start date ) and 10 days after this date became the maximum date ( or end date ). Read more about timedelta() and other data parameters to add or subtract.

Add one Reset button to restore the initial stage so user can select again.

import tkinter  as tk 
from tkcalendar import DateEntry
from datetime import timedelta,date,datetime
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("380x220")  
sel=tk.StringVar()
def my_upd(*args): # triggered when value of string varaible changes
    dt=sel.get()#cal.selection_get() # minmum date
    #print(dt + ": "+str(len(dt))) 
    if(len(dt)>3): # when dt is having date selection
        dt1 = datetime.strptime(dt,'%m/%d/%y') # create date type
        dt2=dt1 + timedelta(days=10) # maximum date, added 10 days
        cal.config(mindate=dt1) # set minimum date
        cal.config(maxdate=dt2) # set maximum date 
cal=DateEntry(my_w,selectmode='day',textvariable=sel)
cal.grid(row=1,column=1,padx=15)

b1=tk.Button(my_w,text='Reset'
    ,command=lambda:cal.config(mindate=None,maxdate=None))
b1.grid(row=1,column=2)

sel.trace('w',my_upd) # on change of string variable 
my_w.mainloop()

Reset to today's date

We are resetting the maxdate and mindate on Click of a button. We can trigger a function and then reset the maxdate , mindate and also reset the calendar to current date. Here is the code inside the function reset()

def reset():
    date_today = datetime.now() # today's date 
    cal.set_date(date_today) # before resetting min & max date
    cal.config(mindate=None) # reset mindate 
    cal.config(maxdate=None) # reset maxdate

We can modify the button code to trigger the above function

b1=tk.Button(my_w,text='Reset',command=lambda:reset())

Here we are first setting the calendar default date to today and then resetting the maxdate, mindate. If you change the order then the callback function my_upd will be executed ( as we are using trace() method of string variable ) and change the mindate, maxdate to new value.
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