Checking date against date range in Python

Question

I have a date variable: 2011-01-15 and I would like to get a boolean back if said date is within 3 days from TODAY. Im not quite sure how to construct this in P

Answer 1

In Python to check a range you can use a <= x <= b:

>>> import datetime
>>> today = datetime.date.today()
>>> margin = datetime.timedelta(days = 3)

>>> today - margin <= datetime.date(2011, 1, 15) <= today + margin
True