date

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/03/2015 12:25, Fabien wrote:
> On 02.03.2015 12:55, greymausg wrote:
>> I have a csv file, the first item on a line is the date in the format
>> 2015-03-02 I try to get that as a date by date(row[0]), but it barfs,
>> replying "Expecting an integer". (I am really trying to get the offset
>> in weeks from that date to today())
>
> Have you tried Pandas? http://pandas.pydata.org/
>
> If your csv file has no other problems, the following should do the trick:
>
> import pandas as pd
> df = pd.read_csv('file.csv', index_col=0, parse_dates= {"time" : [0]})
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fabien
>

IMHO complete overkill.  Give me the Steven D'Aprano solution any day of 
the week.

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Mark Lawrence