Checking for valid date input and convert appropriately
Ferrous Cranus
nikos.gr33k at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 14:38:45 EST 2013
import datetime from datetime
try:
datetime.strptime( date, '%d %m %Y' )
date = date.strptime( '%Y-%m-%d' )
except ValueError:
print( "<h2><font color=red>H ημερομηνία πρέπει να εισαχθεί στην σωστή μορφή => 21 05 2013!" )
sys.exit(0)
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Hello, a have an html that among other thing require the user to insert a valid date.
The user must enter a date like "21 02 2013"
a) first i need to check if the entered date was inserted properly as above
b) convert the entered date to '%Y-%m-%d' which is an appropriate mysql date type format.
Also it would be nice if i could check the user entered date within an if statement like i check all my other fields instead of creating an extra ;try' statemnt just for checking tha date
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if( task and ( price and price.isdigit() and price.__len__() <= 3 ) and ( date and datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d') ) ):
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I want it to be written like the above, but if the user entered date is not valid somehow i need to catch the exception otherwise the cgi-script displays python errors.
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