how many days each month

[m2babaey]

Hi
I was wondering how I can get the maximum actual value of the number of days that fall in a month
For example, for April 2008, how many days it is. My python code requires this
Thanks for your help

[Glenton]

Here's a fairly trivial way (there are probably better ways, but I was just digging through the docshttp://docs.python.org/library/datet...etime.datetime

from datetime import *
apr=date(2008,4,1)
may=date(2008,5,1)
days_in_apr=(may-apr).days

Obviously if you were a little bit slick you'd implement a function which takes 4 or Apr and returns the number of days. There may be such a function, but I got distracted. Hopefully this gets you started...

[bvdet]

I have played around with a dates class for the exercise. Following is a snippet of the code that may give you some ideas.

def isLeap(yr):
    if not yr % 4 and (yr % 100 or not yr % 400):
        return [None,31,29,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]
    return [None,31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]

monthDict = dict(zip(range(1,13),['January', 'February', 'March',
                                  'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
                                  'August', 'September', 'October',
                                  'November', 'December']))

# Date format MM/DD/YYYY
datestr = "04/22/2001"
month,day,year = [int(item) for item in datestr.split('/')]
days_in_month = isLeap(year)[month]