How to calculate difference between two dates in weeks in python

Question

I\'m trying to calculate the difference between two dates in \"weeks of year\". I can get the datetime object and get the days etc but not week numbers. I can\'t, of course,

Answer 1

You may want to refer the Python CookBook (2005 edition) Recipe 3.3. The following code snippet is from the cookbook, does what you require.

from dateutil import rrule
import datetime
def weeks_between(start_date, end_date):
    weeks = rrule.rrule(rrule.WEEKLY, dtstart=start_date, until=end_date)
    return weeks.count()