Calculating Year, Month and Day of Life

[hokiegal99]

hokiegal99 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a funeral director trying to write a small program that calculates 
> the number of years, months and days a person has lived by entering the 
> year, month and day of their birth. This is what I have so far:
> 
> #---------------------
> from time import *
> local = localtime()
> 
> print "Enter the year of birth:"; y = input()
> print "Enter the month of birth:"; m = input()
> print "Enter the day of birth:"; d = input()
> 
> age = y,m,d
> print age
> print local
> #----------------------
> 
> The output looks similiar to this:
> (1934, 2, 7)
> (2003, 7, 5, 13, 20, 0, 5, 186, 1)
> 
> My problem is that localtime is a list of 9 integers while age is a list 
> of 3 integers. Is it possible to make localtime() only return the first 
> 3 integers? If so, how would I then do calculations on the two lists' 
> individual parts? For example, how would I instruct localtime() to 
> subtract the first integer from age's list from the first intger in its 
> own list (2003 - 1934)?
> 
> Also, I am new to python, but I like it a lot and have picked it up 
> quickly. If my approach to this solving this problem is completely 
> wrong, please point me in the right direction.
> 
> Thanks in advance!!!
> 

Sorry to respond to my own post, but I answered the first part of my 
question by experimenting a bit. I pulled the first 3 integers from 
localtime() like this:

local = localtime()
print local[:3]
(2003, 7, 5)