> Just to be picky - your function returns the number of days between > two dates, but it's called isOld, which looks like it should return a > boolean. i.e. it looks like it would be used as: > > if not isOld(auctionDate, currentTime): > checkForBid() > > rather than how I assume it is used: > > if isOld(auctionDate, currentTime) <= 10: > checkForBid() > > I'd call it daysDiff or something similar, or make it more specific so > that it works like the first block of code above:
You're absolutely right; I started writing it with one purpose in mind and changed it midstream. I actually renamed it yesterday to dayDiff. ;o) Shawn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list