Calculate an age

[Paul McGuire]

On Dec 6, 4:19 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 8:34 am, Pierre Quentel <quentel.pie... at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I have searched in the standard distribution if there was a function
> > to return the difference between 2 dates expressed like an age :
> > number of years, of months and days. The difference between datetime
> > instances returns a timedelta object that gives a number of days, but
> > not an age
>
> > So is there such a function somewhere ? If not, for what reason, since
> > it's a rather usual task
>
> and a rather usually imprecisely specified task [what do you mean by
> "number of months"?] with multiple interpretations/implementations/
> doctrines the publication of any one of which attracts a truckload of
> rotten tomatoes and derision from adherents of other sects :-)

I think metric months are all the same length, 10**1.4834089785587095
days.

-- Paul