In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>rsutradhar_python wrote:
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>> How to subtract date which is stored in string variable?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> date1="2006-01-10"
>> date2="2005-12-15"
>> date = date1 - date2
>> should give me 25 but problem is that date1 and date2 datatype is
>> string which need to be conerted into date fromat which i am not able
>> to do so please help me.
>
>from datetime import date
>
>date_str_1 = '2006-01-10'
>date_str_2 = '2005-12-15'
>date_1 = date(*map(int, date_str_1.split('-')))
>date_2 = date(*map(int, date_str_2.split('-')))
>print (date_1 - date_2).days - 1
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Apparently you understand the original poster better than I.
What's with the "- 1"? If I read you correctly, you'd calculate
that there are zero days between, for example,
2006-01-13
and
2006-01-12
Do I have that right?
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