How Compute # of Days between Two Dates?

Chris Rebert clp at rebertia.com
Sun Aug 31 22:56:46 EDT 2008


Have you tried using subtraction on datetime.date objects
(http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-date.html)? It produces a
timedelta which should be very close to what you want.

- Chris

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:38 PM, W. eWatson <notvalid2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> That's the question in Subject. For example, the difference between
> 08/29/2008 and 09/03/2008 is +5. The difference between 02/28/2008 and
> 03/03/2008 is 4, leap year--extra day in Feb. I'm really only interested in
> years between, say, 1990 and 2050. In other words not some really strange
> period of time well outside our current era of history.
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