krishnakant Mane wrote: > hello, > I have a very strange problem and I can't find any solution for that. > I am working on an accounting package which I wish to develop in python. > the simple problem is that I want to knoe how I can know if the given > date is the nth day of a month. > for example if a customer is supposed to pay his installment on every > 5th of all months, > I want to know if today is the fifth day (jan the fifth, feb the fifth > etc) for any given month. > I have not found any such function. > if I have looked (or over looked ) in the wrong places I am really sorry. > secondly I also want to know the way in which I can convert a given > string to a date object. > for example if I have a string "29/09/2005", I know it is a valid date > although it is in a string form. > now I want to convert the above string into a real date object. > how can I cast it this way? > regards, > Krishnakant.
http://docs.python.org/lib/node85.html Then it's just: if date_obj.day == 5: print 'It's the fifth day of the month' Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
