On 8/3/07, Bram - Smartelectronix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > > does anyone have a good age in years calculation function for usage with > datetime.date that returns the age in nr of years of a person? > > We were using: > > def get_age(self): > now = datetime.today() > birthday = datetime(now.year, self.birthday.month, self.birthday.day) > return now.year - self.birthday.year - (birthday > now) > > But the trouble is that this fails for people whose birthday falls on a > leap-day! ( bday = 1980-02-29 => birthday this year doesn't exist :-) ) > > For now I swaped to: > > try: > birthday = datetime(now.year, self.birthday.month, self.birthday.day) > except ValueError: > birthday = datetime(now.year, self.birthday.month, self.birthday.day-1) > > But that seems such a hack :-)) > > > - bram
http://toys.jacobian.org/presentations/2007/oscon/tutorial/ Slide 14, unit tests too! :) Jonathan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
