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Reputation: 5

Subtracting User Input Dates in Python

I'm trying to subtract two user input days. The user would input the start and end date in the format of (YYYYMMDD). So far the code below is what I have but I keep getting a TypeError.

import sys, datetime

startDate = sys.argv[1]
endDate = sys.argv[2]

d1 = datetime.date(startDate, "%Y-%m-%d")
d2 = datetime.date(endDate, "%Y-%m-%d")

print d1, d2

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (1)

Marcel Wilson
Marcel Wilson

Reputation: 4572

You're calling date() incorrectly. See https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/datetime.html#date-objects

It wants, 3 integers. Year, month, day.

datetime.date(2020, 11, 9)

The error message is telling you that putting the string "%Y-%m-%d" in the arguments is not correct.

TypeError: an integer is required (got type str)

Upvotes: 1

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