date

[greymausg]

On 2015-03-02, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> greymausg wrote:
>
>> I have a csv file, the first item on a line is the date in the format
>> 2015-03-02 I try to get that as a date by date(row[0]), but it barfs,
>> replying "Expecting an integer". (I am really trying to get the offset
>> in weeks from that date to today())
>
> What is "date"? Where does it come from?
>
> If it is your own function, then we cannot help you unless you show us the
> code for it.
>
> If you mean the standard library date, then you should say so.
>
>
> py> from datetime import datetime
> py> today = datetime.today()
> py> astring = "2014-12-27"
> py> another_day = datetime.strptime(astring, "%Y-%m-%d")
> py> difference = today - another_day
> py> difference.days
> 65
> py> difference.days/7  # weeks
> 9.285714285714286
>
>

Standard datetime.date, if it were not, I would have written.
Will try, thanks for the info.


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