BTW, here is the Python version I'm using. Will this make a difference with the solutions you guys provided?
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Also, what editor do you guys use? There are so many to chose from. On Aug 13, 4:11 pm, Rafael Durán Castañeda <rafadurancastan...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can use datetime objects: > > >>> dt1 = datetime.datetime.strptime('07/27/2011',"%m/%d/%Y") > >>> dt2 =datetime.datetime.strptime('07/28/2011',"%m/%d/%Y") > >>> dt1 == dt2 > False > >>> dt1 > dt2 > False > >>> dt1 < dt2 > True > >>> dt1 - dt2 > datetime.timedelta(-1) > > On 13/08/11 21:26, MrPink wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have file of records delimited by spaces. > > I need to import the date string and convert them into date datatypes. > > > '07/27/2011' 'Event 1 Description' > > '07/28/2011' 'Event 2 Description' > > '07/29/2011' 'Event 3 Description' > > > I just discovered that my oDate is not an object, but a structure and > > not a date datatype. > > I'm stumped. Is there a way to convert a string into a date datatype > > for comparisons, equality, etc? > > > Thanks, > > > On Aug 13, 3:14 pm, MrPink<tdsimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is this the correct way to convert a String into a Date? > >> I only have dates and no time. > > >> import time, datetime > > >> oDate = time.strptime('07/27/2011', '%m/%d/%Y') > >> print oDate > > >> Thanks, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list