Comparing two date strings in Python

Question

Let\'s say I have a string: \"10/12/13\" and \"10/15/13\", how can I convert them into date objects so that I can compare the dates? For example to see which date is before

Answer 1

If you like to use the dateutil and its parser:

from dateutil.parser import parse

date1 = parse('10/12/13')
date2 = parse('10/15/13')

print date1 - date2
print date2 > date2