How to find difference in years between two dates?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

thebjorn wrote:
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>Possible solution:
>>
>>import mx.DateTime as dt
>>def age(date):
>>    return dt.Age(dt.today(), date).years
>>born = dt.Date(1967, 5, 1)
>>assert age(born) == 39
> 
> 
> dealbreaker:
>
>>>>age(datetime.date(1970,5,2))
>
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What about:
 age(dt.Date(1970,5,2))

> I'm getting data from a database, and conversions
> are out of the
> question for something like this.

Which conversion ? How do you get the data ? as a datetime object ? as a
(y,m,d) tuple ? as a "y-m-d" string ? Else ?



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