On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:33:33 +0530, krishnakant Mane wrote:
> firstly, I can't get a way to convert a string like "1/2/2005" in a
> genuan date object which is needed for calculation.
Why? Split the string up, convert the parts to `int` and just create a
`datetime.date` object.
> now once this is done I will create a another date object with
> today = datetime.datetime.now()
> and then see the difference between this today and the string that I
> converted to date.
> now in the first place I can't recall how I can convert a string to a date.
> then now I don't know how to calculate difference in days between
> today and the string converted date.
In [421]: '1/2/2005'.split('/')
Out[421]: ['1', '2', '2005']
In [422]: map(int, '1/2/2005'.split('/'))
Out[422]: [1, 2, 2005]
In [423]: month, day, year = map(int, '1/2/2005'.split('/'))
In [424]: a = datetime.date(year, month, day)
In [425]: b = datetime.date.today() - a
In [426]: b.days
Out[426]: 1017
Maybe you should read the docs next time. ;-)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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