Python 3.2 input date function

Thanks. I have been trying to figure out how to add info to datetime.datetime(xxx) and this explains it nicely. It's as follows

datetime.datetime(year,month, day, hour, minute, second) with parameters all integer. It works!

The input() method can only take text from the terminal. You'll thus have to figure out a way to parse that text and turn it into a date.

You could go about that in two different ways:

• Ask the user to enter the 3 parts of a date separately, so call input() three times, turn the results into integers, and build a date:

  year = int(input('Enter a year'))
  month = int(input('Enter a month'))
  day = int(input('Enter a day'))
  date1 = datetime.date(year, month, day)
  

• Ask the user to enter the date in a specific format, then turn that format into the three numbers for year, month and day:

  date_entry = input('Enter a date in YYYY-MM-DD format')
  year, month, day = map(int, date_entry.split('-'))
  date1 = datetime.date(year, month, day)
  

Both these approaches are examples; no error handling has been included for example, you'll need to read up on Python exception handling to figure that out for yourself. :-)