On 2008-09-01, W. eWatson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2008-09-01, W. eWatson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >> >> Does the standard library's datetime module not do what you want? >> >> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-datetime.html >> > Yes, it would seem so. This works fine.
It would probably be worth your while to read through one of introductory Python books or just browse through the Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/ > I was pondering this in pyfdate, but perhaps missed it or it > was not obvious to me in the tutorial for some reason. Sorry, can't help you there -- I've never heard of pyfdate. The timedate module that comes with Python has always done what I needed to do with dates/times. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list