Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:49:27 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Wildman via Python-list > wrote: >> Point taken. I did miss the python3 part. >> >> I switched to raw_input because it handles an empty >> input. An empty input would trigger the ValueError. >> No doubt

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Wildman via Python-list wrote: > Point taken. I did miss the python3 part. > > I switched to raw_input because it handles an empty > input. An empty input would trigger the ValueError. > No doubt with the correct code the same or similar > could be done with inpu

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:59:17 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Wildman via Python-list > wrote: >> Try the code that is below: >> >> import datetime >> from datetime import date >> >> today = date.today() >> person = input("Enter your name: ") >> byear = raw_input("

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Wildman via Python-list wrote: > Try the code that is below: > > import datetime > from datetime import date > > today = date.today() > person = input("Enter your name: ") > byear = raw_input("Enter the four-digit year you were born: ") Please take care of Python

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 06:18:38 -0800, jones.dayton wrote: > I'm just learning, so please excuse my ignorance for > what I know is a simple issue... > > I'm writing a "Hello, World" type of script to see how > things work in python3. I'm asking for input to get a > person's birthday, then I want to

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread justin walters
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:13 AM, Dayton Jones wrote: > ah...yes, but then how could I strip the rest (h:m:s) from it? > > Enter the numerical month you were born: 3 > Enter the numerical day of the month you were born: 30 > Enter the year you were born: 1989 > 10100 days, 0:00:00 > -- > https://m

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Dayton Jones
Ah, perfect - thanks. I was overly complicating things. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Anssi Saari
jones.day...@gmail.com writes: > but how do I replace the "2008, 8, 18" and "2008, 9, 26" with *my* values? > I've tried several things (which I can't remember all of) but usually end up > with an error like this: Something like this? today = date.today() birthday = date(byear, bmonth, bday)

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Dayton Jones
ah...yes, but then how could I strip the rest (h:m:s) from it? Enter the numerical month you were born: 3 Enter the numerical day of the month you were born: 30 Enter the year you were born: 1989 10100 days, 0:00:00 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread Thomas Nyberg
On 11/23/2016 09:18 AM, jones.day...@gmail.com wrote: but how do I replace the "2008, 8, 18" and "2008, 9, 26" with *my* values? I've tried several things (which I can't remember all of) but usually end up with an error like this: Does this not work for you? d = date(byear, bmonth,

Quick help for a python newby, please

2016-11-23 Thread jones . dayton
I'm just learning, so please excuse my ignorance for what I know is a simple issue... I'm writing a "Hello, World" type of script to see how things work in python3. I'm asking for input to get a person's birthday, then I want to compare that to "today" and see how many days have past. --code-