Module like Perl's Date::Calc

[Gerrit Holl]

Roy Marteen wrote:
> I am new to Python. I used to program in Perl, and I used a lot of
> function from Date::Calc module in Perl. I am just wondering is there any
> similar module in Python? 

Python 2.3 has a datetime module, which is very good.
$ python -c 'import datetime; print datetime.datetime.now()'
2003-06-12 23:13:46.530214
$ python -c 'import datetime; print datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.datetime(1985,8,13)'
6512 days, 23:14:26.666743

See also: http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-datetime.html

yours,
Gerrit.

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