On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Kingston <kingston...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a user input a date and time as a string that looks like: > "200901010100" but I want to do a manipulation where I subtract 7 days > from it. > > The first thing I tried was to turn the string into a time with the > format "%Y%m%d%H%M" and then strip out the day value, turn it into an > int and subtract seven, but the value "-6" doesn't mean anything in > terms of days =). > > Does anyone have an idea as to how I can subtract 7 days without > turning the date string into an int?
>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta >>> now = datetime.now() >>> now datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 15, 14, 22, 56, 416662) >>> week = timedelta(days=7) >>> now - week datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 8, 14, 22, 56, 416662) Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
