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Hi-
I have a lot of monthly time series data. I need to be able to compare
two dates and get the number of months that they are apart.
The datetime module is a daily-frequency data type. It has a timedelta
object that returns the difference in days between two dates:
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>>> d1 = datetime.date(2002,1,1)
>>> d2 = datetime.date(2001,12,1)
>>> diff = d1-d2
>>> diff.days[/color][/color][/color]
31
I want to be able to compare monthly-frequency data, so that I can do
something like this:
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>>>firstdate = newMonthlyDatetime(2002, 5)
>>>Nov2002 = newMonthlyDatetime(2002, 11)
>>>diff = Nov2002 - firstdate
>>>diff.months[/color][/color][/color]
6
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to do something like this?
Thanks for the help.
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