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

import datetime

d1="10/12/13"
d2="10/15/13"
date = d1.split('/')
d1=datetime.datetime(int(date[2]),int(date[1]),int(date[0])) 
date = d2.split('/')
d2=datetime.datetime(int(date[2]),int(date[1]),int(date[0]))
if d1 > d2 :
    ## Code
today = datetime.datetime.today()
if d1 > today :
    ## code

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