Need Help comparing dates

[colincolehour at gmail.com]

I am new to Python and am working on my first program. I am trying to
compare a date I found on a website to todays date. The problem I have
is the website only shows 3 letter month name and the date.
Example: Jun 15

How would I go about comparing that to a different date? The purpose of
my program is to load a webpage and see if the content on the front
page is fresh or stale as in older than a few days. Any help in the
right direction would be great!