Needs programming tip using date

[Gerhard Häring]

Raaijmakers, Vincent (IndSys, GE Interlogix) wrote:
> I think this is a bit of a newbie question in the dates area.

Ok, the first thing you should do is download and install the eGenix 
BASE package [1]. If you have a half-way decent operating system, you 
can also install it via the package manager or ports system ;-)

> So before I end up in very ugly coding,
> What is THE/recommended way in checking if a date formatted as "08/05/2003", so "month/day/year" 
> is the date of today or a date of the current week?

from mx.DateTime import DateTimeFrom, now
dt = DateTimeFrom("08/05/2003")

if dt.iso_week[1] == now().iso_week[1]:
     print "date is in current week"

You'll want to check if the definition of iso_week matches your 
definition of 'week'. [2]

-- Gerhard

[1] http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html
[2] http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html