[Tutor] datetime.timedelta Output Format

[Kent Johnson]

William Allison wrote:
> Is there a way to have the output of "print tis" in the same format as 
> "print now" and "print tafmsd" in the code below?
> Thanks,
> Will
> 
> 
> savage:~ wallison$ python
> Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import datetime
>  >>> now = datetime.date.today()
>  >>> print now
> 2007-04-01
>  >>> tafmsd = datetime.date(1994, 2, 23)
>  >>> print tafmsd
> 1994-02-23
>  >>> tis = now - tafmsd
>  >>> print tis
> 4785 days, 0:00:00

It looks like Gustavo Niemeyer's dateutil module will at least do the 
year/month/day calculation if not the formatting:

In [1]: from datetime import date
In [2]: from dateutil import relativedelta
In [3]: now = date.today()
In [9]: rd = relativedelta.relativedelta(now, tafmsd)
In [10]: rd
Out[10]: relativedelta(years=+13, months=+1, days=+10)

http://labix.org/python-dateutil

Kent