Bell, Kevin wrote: > Anyone aware of existing code to turn a date string "8-15-05" into the > number 20050815?
>>> import datetime >>> s = "8-15-05" >>> month,day,year = map(int, s.split('-')) >>> date = datetime.date(2000+year,month,day) >>> date.strftime('%Y%m%d') '20050815' Of course, if you really want the *number* 20050815 you'd have to do >>> int(date.strftime('%Y%m%d')) Using a datetime.date object means that you have good support for a lot of arithmetic on and formatting of dates without writing a lot of new code. If you really mean that you want the number 20050815, I assume this is because some legacy system beyond you control need to have dates in that format. It's not a particularly good format for dates. If you just want a numeric storage of dates, I'd suggest using datetime.date.toordinal/fromordinal. Those numbers aren't as easy to decipher manually, but at least they work right if you subtract dates or add or subtract days from a date. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list