I have a Python3 script that reads the first eight characters of every
filename in a directory in order to determine whether the file was created
before or after 180 days ago based on each file's name. The file names all
begin with MMDD or erased_MMDD_etc.xls. I can collect all these
filena
elif fileDate = datetime.strptime(name[0:8], DATEFMT).date():
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:43 PM Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 3/23/19 3:16 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
>
> > Personally I would use a try...except clause because with that you can
> > handle
I have cobbled together this code which gives me regex matches of files
whose names either begin with either MMDD_? or erased_YYMMDD_? and
whose extensions are exml or ewav.
Now I need to compare the date string (regex match) in the filename to
today's date. If the result of the comparison resu
