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Re: How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are?

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Subject Re: How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are?
Date Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:31:42 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013, at 04:22 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> How do you tell how many weeks apart two datetimes (t1 and t2) are?
> The "obvious" solution would be:
> 
> weeks = (t2 - t1) / timedelta(days=7)
> 
> but that doesn't appear to be allowed.  Is there some fundamental
> reason why timedelta division not supported?
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

It works for python 3(.2):

>>> x = datetime.timedelta(days=666)
>>> week = datetime.timedelta(days=7)
>>> x / week
95.14285714285714
>>> halfday = datetime.timedelta(hours=12)
>>> x / halfday
1332.0

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How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-01-08 16:22 -0500
  Re: How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are? marduk <marduk@python.net> - 2013-01-08 16:31 -0500
  Re: How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-01-08 14:33 -0700
  Re: How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-01-08 14:36 -0700
  Re: How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-01-08 22:50 +0000
  Re: How to tell how many weeks apart two datetimes are? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-01-08 22:54 +0000

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