Simple question about yyyy/mm/dd

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    >> Hi all, I need to receive in input a date represented by a string in
    >> the form "yyyy/mm/dd" (or reversed), then I need to assure that the
    >> date is = the current date and then split the dates in variables like
    >> year, month, day. Is there some module to do this quickly?

The dateutil package has a parser module which works well here:

    >>> import dateutil.parser, datetime
    >>> dateutil.parser.parse("2008/03/31")
    datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 31, 0, 0)
    >>> dateutil.parser.parse("2008/03/31") > datetime.datetime.now()
    False

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