Date Comparison and Manipulation Functions?

[John Machin]

On Aug 27, 11:24 am, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
> > On Aug 27, 10:21 am, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> I'm using IDLE for Python 2.4, and put pfydate distribution in
> >> C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pfydate, as required by the
> >> <ttp://www.ferg.org/pyfdate/download.html> page.
> >> How to install pyfdate.
>
> >>      Save pyfdate.py into your PythonNN/Lib/site-packages directory.
> >> I copied it into C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pfydate
>
> > If that means that you ended up with
> >    C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pfydate\pyfdate.py
> > then you have *not* followed the instructions "Save pyfdate.py into
> > your PythonNN/Lib/site-packages directory".
> > You need to end up with
> >    C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pyfdate.py
>
> None of the folders in C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\ have py as a suffix
> (as seen either by the IDLE path browser or XP). My folder is exactly
> C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pfydate in XP and it contains about 12 py files.
> There are exactly three folders under
> C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\ according to the IDLE path browser. This does
> not agree with XP, which has:
> Numeric
> pfydate
> scipy
> numpy
> PIL

(1) "pfydate" != "pyfdate"
(2) The instructions say to put pyfdate.py [that's *ONE* file, not 12
files] in the ..../site-packages folder, *not* a sub-folder