In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>rsutradhar_python wrote:
>>> 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
> .
> .
> .
> Apparently you understand the original poster better than I.
> What's with the "- 1"? If I read you correctly, you'd calculate
> that there are zero days between, for example,
> 2006-01-13
> and
> 2006-01-12
> Do I have that right?
No that's not what I would calculate. I would do without the ``- 1`` but
the OP wanted 25 as result. Without the substraction it's 26. ;-)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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