Err, my bad.  I wasn't thinking.  I need to stop writing replies after
having a few beers. ;)

On Aug 21, 9:09 pm, Brian Rosner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There isn't a solution to your particular problem.  Your problem is
> that you are accepting invalid data.  Nobody can be born on a day that
> doesn't exist.  I'd recommend verifying that the data be entered into
> the database is valid.
>
> On Aug 3, 5:37 am, Bram - Smartelectronix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey Everyone,
>
> > does anyone have a good age in years calculation function for usage with
> > datetime.date that returns the age in nr of years of a person?
>
> > We were using:
>
> > def get_age(self):
> >     now = datetime.today()
> >     birthday = datetime(now.year, self.birthday.month, self.birthday.day)
> >     return now.year - self.birthday.year - (birthday > now)
>
> > But the trouble is that this fails for people whose birthday falls on a
> > leap-day! ( bday = 1980-02-29 => birthday this year doesn't exist :-) )
>
> > For now I swaped to:
>
> > try:
> >   birthday = datetime(now.year, self.birthday.month, self.birthday.day)
> > except ValueError:
> >   birthday = datetime(now.year, self.birthday.month, self.birthday.day-1)
>
> > But that seems such a hack :-))
>
> >   - bram


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