[Tutor] Question

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Saturday 01 February 2003 14:32, Ben Patel wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I would like to write a program to calculate age of a person based on t=
he
> birth date entered (in any format).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

how would you (a person) accomplish this?  You ask for the their birth da=
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and subtract it from the current year.  So, what do you need?

their birth date (start simple and just ask for a year, then get fancy)
the current date
a way to ask for the first item and display the answer

The python online docs (or the ones that came with your local install if =
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should be able to answer these.

This may not sound like a direct answer.  Rather the point is to get you =
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think about a problem in this manner so you can solve even bigger problem=
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later.  Part of programming is being able to consider the problem and bre=
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it into smaller, easier to solve pieces.