On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:10:54 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:33:33 +0530, krishnakant Mane wrote: >> >> > firstly, I can't get a way to convert a string like "1/2/2005" in >> > a genuan date object which is needed for calculation. >> >> Why? Split the string up, convert the parts to `int` and just >> create a `datetime.date` object. > > What, re-implement 'strptime' in every program that needs it? And then > debug the result every time?
Yes. Seems easier to me. :-) > Even if one doesn't have Python 2.5 or above, surely getting the > string parsed into int values by the standard 'time.strptime' is > better than re-implementing it every time. > >> Maybe you should read the docs next time. ;-) > > Back at you. Got me. I didn't know that `datetime` has a `strptime` now. I just looked at `date`. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list