Date Comparison and Manipulation Functions?

[W. eWatson]

John Machin wrote:
> 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"
typo
> (2) The instructions say to put pyfdate.py [that's *ONE* file, not 12
> files] in the ..../site-packages folder, *not* a sub-folder
> 
Got it. Ah, I see upon closer inspection the other files are just 
international versions. Thanks. It works.

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