On Nov 14, 4:22 pm, "Demel, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble finding exactly what I need by googling, so thought > I'd try to get a quick answer from the group. This seems like something > that should be dead simple. > > I need to generate a string value of a date in the format YYYYMMDD that > is 97 days in the future. The datetime module is brand new to me, and > I'm not sure how to do this. Can someone help me out here? > With the datetime module you can do something like:
py> import datetime py> d = datetime.date.today() py> print d 2006-11-14 py> d97 = d + datetime.timedelta(days=97) py> print d97 2007-02-19 py> fmt_d97 = d97.isoformat().replace('-', '') py> print fmt_d97 20070219 > TIA > > -Jeff > This email is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is > addressed. This email may contain information that is privileged, > confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments by anyone other > than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for > delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are > not the intended recipient of this message or the employee or agent > responsible for delivery of this email to the intended recipient, please > notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete it from your > system. Any use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this > message by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list