Python How to calculate number of days between 2 dates?

Question

I'm having trouble doing this in a clean and simple way in python.
What I'd like to do is having a piece of code that calculates the number of days passed between 2 dates. For example today being the 22nd of december and i want to know how many days i have before the 15th of febuary. There are 55 days difference
(i took this example because it englobes 2 different years an multiple months)
What i made was very messy and dosen't work half the time so i'm kind of embarrassed to show it.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Use the datetime module - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151199/how-do-i-calculate-number-of-days-betwen-two-dates-using-python — dannymilsom, Jun 17 '14 at 16:11

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 17 '14 at 16:16

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Simpler implementation:

    import datetime

    d1 = datetime.datetime(2013,12,22)
    d2 = datetime.datetime(2014,2,15)
    (d2-d1).days

answered Jun 17 '14 at 16:16

gkusner

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yedpodtrzitko · Answer 2 · 2014-06-17T16:17:02.447

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just create an instance of both the dates and substract them - you'll get timedelta object with a given info.

>>> from datetime import date
>>> by = date(2013, 12, 22)
>>> since = date(2014, 2, 15)
>>> res = since - by
>>> res.days
55

some examples with a variables

>>> variables_tuple = (2013, 12, 22)
>>> by = date(*variables_tuple)
>>> by.year
2013
>>> until_year = 2014
>>> until = date(until_year, 2, 15)

edited Jun 17 '14 at 16:17

answered Jun 17 '14 at 16:09

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instead of inputing dates directly can thay also be variables in the parentesis? and does it work with leap years? – TheD0ubleT Jun 17 '14 at 16:15
yes, you can use variables there and yes, it works with a leap years – yedpodtrzitko Jun 17 '14 at 16:16

Python How to calculate number of days between 2 dates?

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