Hi Prefect Team, I would love your thoughts on if this is the Prefect way on doing this. I have a scheduled flow where we need a

run_date

that is yesterday UTC time. I would love to use the prefect context to do this and this worked for me, but is there a better way?

Hi @Chris O'Brien - modifying

context

within a Task is not recommended, and

context

should be treated as read-only (unless you are adding values to context through environment variable or the API). Why do you need to add this to context? You can always compute it within any task, as you did above:

run_date = prefect.context.date.date() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)

Thanks @Chris White, we have multiple different load tasks that all require this same date value.

Gotcha gotcha; in that case I recommended creating a single task that computes this date and returns it as a piece of data for downstream tasks to consume directly from a kwarg

Ahhhh cool that was our original implementation