On Dec 6, 11:19 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 7, 8:34 am, Pierre Quentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I have searched in the standard distribution if there was a function > > to return the difference between 2 dates expressed like an age : > > number of years, of months and days. The difference between datetime > > instances returns a timedelta object that gives a number of days, but > > not an age > > > So is there such a function somewhere ? If not, for what reason, since > > it's a rather usual task > > and a rather usually imprecisely specified task [what do you mean by > "number of months"?] with multiple interpretations/implementations/ > doctrines the publication of any one of which attracts a truckload of > rotten tomatoes and derision from adherents of other sects :-)
It may be imprecisely specified, yet it's quite useful anyway. I've got an implementation at http://blog.tkbe.org/archive/python-how-old-are-you/ if anyone's interested.. -- bjorn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
