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Mohammadreza Shahsavar
Mohammadreza Shahsavar

Reputation: 19

Convert input string type into date format

I want to calculate age. I am going to receive the birthday from user and calculate the age. I think I need to convert the Input type into date format. Can someone helps me?

I tried to make a list of [year, month, day]. They are integers and I used the following formula to calculate the age but I ran into the error(int type in callable).

Age=(Now.year-Birthday[0])-(Now.month,Now.day)<(Birthday[1],Birthday[2])

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1168

Answers (1)

Roger
Roger

Reputation: 166

By importing datetime class (from datetime module, they're called the same, it's confusing) you can use the strptime() to translate dates from string to Date:

from datetime import datetime
import math

bday_str = '18/04/1998'
bday_date = datetime.strptime(bday_str, '%d/%m/%y')

This would get you '18/04/1998' as a Date object, which later on you can use to operate to get the age of the person:

now = datetime.datetime.now()
age = math.trunc((now-bday_date).days/365.2425)
print(age)
>>> 22

Upvotes: 1

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