Turn a datetime into days in python

Question

I want to take in a string that is a date (ex. "2002-3-14") and turn it into total days since January 1st 1 AD (ex. 730,924). How would I do this in python 2.7? Is there a way to convert the datetime to a timedelta?

turn it into days? be more spesific please. – GLHF Dec 15 '14 at 00:02 — GLHF, Dec 15 '14 at 00:02

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '14 at 00:14

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import datetime

d0 = datetime.datetime.strptime("0001-1-01", "%Y-%m-%d")
df = datetime.datetime.strptime("2002-3-14", "%Y-%m-%d")

print(df-d0)

>> 730922 days, 0:00:00

answered Dec 15 '14 at 00:14

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