"Bell, Kevin" wrote:
> Anyone aware of existing code to turn a date string "8-15-05" into the
> number 20050815?
date = "8-15-05"
import re
m, d, y = map(int, re.match("(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)$", date).groups())
number = 20000000 + y*10000 + m*100 + d
print number
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