date

[greymausg]

On 2015-03-02, greymausg <maus at mail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Thanks to all, the strptime did the trick, after I realized
that I was comparing a 2digit year to a 4digit.


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