Puruganti Ramesh wrote: > I have an issue in comparing dates in python 2.7.8
No, you are stuck with parsing the dates, you don't get to the point of comparing them. > I am getting below excption > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "FunctionUpdate.py", line 204, in <module> > dt_dateb = datetime.strptime(dt_strq, '%Y-%m-%d').date() > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 328, in _strptime > data_string[found.end():]) > ValueError: unconverted data remains: > Look closely at the line above. You don't see anything? Well, that's a newline, I suspect ;) If you are reading dates from a file dt_strq is probably "2014-9-11\n" instead of the "2014-9-11" you and the strptime() method expect. Try removing any whitespace with dt_strq = dt_strq.strip() before passing it to datetime.strptime() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
