On Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 11:46:51 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote: > Greg Lindstrom wrote: > > I work for a company that processes claims for the health care industry > > (Novasys Health, recently purchased by Centene Corp). My current > > assignment has me writing a routine to compute insurance premiums. One > > of the requirements is to determine how many months a policy has been in > > effect. The datetime module will give me the number of days but, with > > months having different lengths, that does not do me much good. I've > > looked in the calendar library but didn't see anything there, either. > > > > I've written a function to return the months between date1 and date2 but > > I'd like to know if anyone is aware of anything in the standard library > > to do the same? For bonus points, does anyone know if postgres can do > > the same (we use a lot of date/time funcitons in postgres, already, but > > didn't see this problem addressed). > > > [snip] > A simple expression is: > > diff = (current_year - start_year) * 12 + (current_month - start_month) > > According to this, if a policy started on 31 July 2010, then on 1 August > 2010 it has been in effect for 1 month. Is this reasonable? It depends! > > It's probably better to write the function yourself according to what > makes sense in your use-case, and document its behaviour clearly.
Thanks for that answer -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
