how do you manipulate the days on a calender

[roryclancy]

when I did this on hypercard all i had to do was:

put the date into date
convert date to secs(onds)
date =+ (24*60*60*No_of _days_i_want_to _add_on)
convert date to the date

Is there any way I could do that with Python

[bvdet]

Here's an example of using built-in modules datetime and time to parse a date string and add days:

import datetime as dt
import time

userDate = "2007/08/20"
timeObj = time.strptime(userDate, "%Y/%m/%d")
daysToAdd = 15
dateObj = dt.datetime(*timeObj[:6])

print dateObj
print dateObj + dt.timedelta(days=daysToAdd)

[roryclancy]

this works great thank you, you got me out of a bind again, I've looked it over and messed with it to see how it works, but I can't figer out why the

[:6]

as in

dateObj = dt.datetime(*timeObj[:6])

also what is dt as in

import datetime as dt

[bvdet]

The time object has additional attributes that would not be accepted by the datetime.dateti me constructor. That's why I take a slice of the time object ([:6]) which returns the first 6 elements. It works because a time object is iterable.

"import datetime as dt" is a way to abbreviate datetime.

>>> for attr in timeObj:
... 	print attr
... 	
2007
8
20
0
0
0
0
232
-1
>>> timeObj[:6]
(2007, 8, 20, 0, 0, 0)
>>>

[roryclancy]

very cool

thanks again