thebjorn wrote: > For the purpose of finding someone's age I was looking for a way to > find how the difference in years between two dates, so I could do > something like: > > age = (date.today() - born).year > > but that didn't work (the timedelta class doesn't have a year > accessor). > > I looked in the docs and the cookbook, but I couldn't find anything, so > I came up with: > > def age(born): > now = date.today() > birthday = date(now.year, born.month, born.day) > return now.year - born.year - (birthday > now and 1 or 0) > > i.e. calculate the "raw" years first and subtract one if he hasn't had > his birthday yet this year... It works, but I'd rather use a standard > and generic approach if it exists...?
You may want to have a look at mxDatetime, which has a RelativeDateTime type that seems to do what you want: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
