Python time to age

Question

I\'m trying to convert a date string into an age.

The string is like: \"Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:45:32 +0200\" and I need to work out how many days old it is.

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Answer 1

In Python, datetime objects natively support subtraction:

from datetime import datetime
age = datetime.now() - datetime.strptime(...)
print age.days

The result is a timedelta object.