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| From | John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Subtracting two dates in python |
| Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:31:11 +0000 (UTC) |
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In <ea9aa6cd-1fe4-420e-ac11-c3ff2be3befa@googlegroups.com> eshwar080@gmail.com writes:
> I would like to subtract two dates
> i.e I have entered a date into a textbox which is of type String like below
> type(waitForObject(":VWAP Calculator_LCDateTextField"), "07/24/14")
> I am capturing that date like below
> Current = (waitForObject(":VWAP Calculator_LCDateTextField").text)
> so, now I want to subtract the captured date with my current system date and get the difference in days. I tried many ways and see no success. Someone please help with this as soon as possible.
> P.S: I have python 2.4 and 2.7
If you have the user-entered date in a string format, you can use
datetime.strptime() to convert it into a datetime object, like so:
from datetime import datetime
user_date = datetime.strptime(user_input, "%m/%d/%y")
Get the current system date like this:
now_date = datetime.now()
Subtract the two datetime objects to obtain a timedelta object:
mydelta = now_date - user_date
Look at the days attribute to get the difference in days:
mydelta.days
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Subtracting two dates in python eshwar080@gmail.com - 2014-07-31 09:08 -0700 Re: Subtracting two dates in python John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-07-31 16:31 +0000 Re: Subtracting two dates in python MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-07-31 17:35 +0100
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