Re: parsing a date string

2005-03-07 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:35:23 + schrieb MikeyG: > Hi, > > I have a date string in the ctime() format ('Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005') > and I want to know how long ago that was in whole days. > > So far I have: > > import time > import datetime > age = > (datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.mktim

parsing a date string

2005-03-06 Thread MikeyG
Hi, I have a date string in the ctime() format ('Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005') and I want to know how long ago that was in whole days. So far I have: import time import datetime age = (datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime(date.strip( - datetime.date.today()).days Which is an