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Date Checking Python
So Python’s datetime library makes it pretty easy to check dates and it’s got an awesome timedelta class to make date math super simple. We’ve got a client that we’re building out a social networking site for (in Django of course) and today I was working on a requirement for them that certain parts of the profile could only be publicly displayed if the user was over 18.
I thought this would be a perfect use of the timedelta class but alas, the you can only give create timedeltas in increments less than months (ie. weeks, days, minutes, seconds, milliseconds only). First I thought that I could just multiply weeks but then you run into leap year issues etc. Instead here’s a handy little function I added to our user profile model that’s still a pretty nice example of Python datetime code (note: we allow our users not to disclose their age but assume they’re underage if they haven’t):
def is_of_age(self):
if self.dob:
min_dob = datetime.date.today()
min_dob = datetime.date(year=min_dob.year-18,
month=min_dob.month, day=min_dob.day)
return min_dob >= self.dob
return False
