[Wiesel]

Hi everybody!

For programming a maya calendar I need to check how many days away is an entered (via spot) date from a certain date. In some languages there exists an internal date format which returns an integer value of the days from a certain zero "date", in DOS e.g. 1/1/1980, or Cache 1/1/1843.
Is there such a function in Python ?
Thank you in advance,

Wiesel

[Studio 12]

Not sure this is what you need but I found this on http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html. there are a few sections on date and time. If you haven't poked around in there you may find them very usefully.

fromtimestamp(timestamp)
Return the local date corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, such as is returned by time.time(). This may raise ValueError, if the timestamp is out of the range of values supported by the platform C localtime() function. It's common for this to be restricted to years from 1970 through 2038. Note that on non-POSIX systems that include leap seconds in their notion of a timestamp, leap seconds are ignored by fromtimestamp().

Hope thats helpful
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[Lisa]

This website might be helpful. It has all the time functions.
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/lib/module-time.html
Good luck
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[Studio 12]

URL Correction
Oops, I posted the wrong URL. This would be the correct one.

http://docs.python.org/lib/
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