how to input the date in python?

Question

Here is my program:

import datetime

b=input()
a = datetime.date(b)-datetime.datetime.now().date()

print(a)

When I enter the date 2015,2,2, or some another, I have a problem

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 4, in <module>
    a = datetime.date(b)-datetime.datetime.now().date()
TypeError: an integer is required

How to input the date right? I tried 2015-2-2 and 2015.2.2 and 2015-2-2 and other versions. But nothing works :(

http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime — Ismail Badawi, Nov 17 '13 at 23:28
You need to explicitly parse the string into a date; the `datetime()` class does not parse strings for you. There is a `datetime.strptime()` method that you can tell what pattern to look for. — Martijn Pieters, Nov 17 '13 at 23:29
b=datetime.strptime(input(), "%Y-%m-%d") AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'strptime' — Kitty, Nov 18 '13 at 00:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 17 '13 at 23:59

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datetime.date requires 3 int arguments and you are passing a touple

Extract the ints from the tuple using an index to grab each position

import datetime

b=input()

a = datetime.date(b[0],b[1],b[2])-datetime.datetime.now().date()

print(a)

Example

b = input()

2015,4,4

a = datetime.date(b[0],b[1],b[2]) - datetime.datetime.now().date() 

print(a)

503 days, 0:00:00

edited Nov 17 '13 at 23:59

Szymon

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answered Nov 17 '13 at 23:40

Miguel Z

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I'm sorry, but something is wrong...:( 2015,4,4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 5, in a = datetime.date(b[0],b[1],b[2])-datetime.datetime.now().date() TypeError: an integer is required – Kitty Nov 18 '13 at 00:15

how to input the date in python?

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