How to find out if february has 29 or 28 days ?

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Vinicius Laranjeira <m.laranjeira at datacraft.com.br> writes:

    Marcus> I use the mx.DateTime package, and I need to know if in
    Marcus> one particular year has a february with 28 or 29 days ? I
    Marcus> don't know how to do that !


Here's one way....

import mx.DateTime

def is_leapyear(year):
    try:
        d = mx.DateTime.DateTime(year,2,29)
        return 1
    except mx.DateTime.mxDateTime.RangeError:
        return 0

print is_leapyear(2000)
print is_leapyear(2002)