In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rsutradhar_python wrote: > How to subtract date which is stored in string variable? > > Example: > > date1="2006-01-10" > date2="2005-12-15" > date = date1 - date2 > should give me 25 but problem is that date1 and date2 datatype is > string which need to be conerted into date fromat which i am not able > to do so please help me.
from datetime import date date_str_1 = '2006-01-10' date_str_2 = '2005-12-15' date_1 = date(*map(int, date_str_1.split('-'))) date_2 = date(*map(int, date_str_2.split('-'))) print (date_1 - date_2).days - 1 Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list