On 2013-02-22 07:07, Ferrous Cranus wrote: > Actually it can, but instead of try: i have to create a function: > > def is_sane_date(date): > parts = [int(part) for part in date.split() if part.isdigit()] > if len(parts) == 3 and \ > 1 <= parts[0] <= 31 and \ > 1 <= parts[1] <= 12 and \ > 1900 <= parts[2] <= 2100: > return True > return False
Then you have things like "31 2 2013" being a valid date. Also, the hard caps at 1900 and 2100 are both pretty short-sighted. To the best of my knowledge, there are valid dates outside that date range :-) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
