Calculate an age

[John Machin]

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 :-)