Comparing the date in a file to present date

[sravanvureli]

i have a file with lines like

akdvalues[0]["day"]="16.10.11";

akdvalues[1]["day"]="17.10.11";

.....

so i need to pick these date and compare with present day and do for all the dates in the file

[bvdet]

Assuming you can parse the date, you can create a struct_time object and compare to the current time to determine the difference in seconds. Example

>>> s = "16.10.11"
>>> import time
>>> timeObj = time.strptime(s, "%d.%m.%y")
>>> diff = time.time() - time.mktime(timeObj)
>>> diff
4013380.8589999676
>>> diff/86400.0
46.462851018519316
>>> 

You can also do something similar used in combination with a datetime.datetime() object.

>>> import datetime
>>> present = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> present
datetime.datetime(2011, 12, 1, 10, 1, 20, 593000)
>>> then = datetime.datetime(*timeObj[:6])
>>> diff = present-then
>>> diff.days
46
>>> diff.seconds
36080
>>>