Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying
> > to compare a date I found on a website to todays date. The problem I
> > have is the website only shows 3 letter month name and the date.
> > Example: Jun 15
>
> The 'datetime' module in the standard library will do the job of
> creating date objects that can be compared.
>
> <URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-datetime>
>
> Construct a date from arbitrary values with datetime.date(), get the
> current date with datetime.date.today(). The objects returned by those
> functions can be compared directly.
>
> As for how to get from a string representation to a date object,
> you're now talking about parsing strings to extract date/time
> information. This isn't provided in the standard library
As soon as I sent this, I remembered that the standard library *does*
provide datetime parsing:
<URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time#l2h-1956>
So your task now consists of:
- get a date object of today's date using datetime.date.today()
- define a format for parsing a string date
- get a struct_time object from time.strptime() feeding it the
string and the format
- make any assumptions about missing pieces of the date (e.g. the
year)
- get a date object by feeding values to datetime.date()
- compare the two date objects
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