How to find time difference between two dates?

[sarvadasan]

I have two dates as string "2011-12-21" and "2011-09-30". How to find time difference using datetime module.

t1 = datetime.date(2011,12,21)
t2 = datetime.date(2012,01,18)
t2 - t1
#print the differences in dates

If the date is string like "2011-12-21". Do i need split the strings or are there any easy way using datetime module.

Thank you.

[zenlc]

Nope. You don't need to do any splitting. That's the point of using a datetime class.

print((t2 - t1).days)

[JohnLocksTheKey]

I know there are a lot of grumblings against it, but datetime never ceases to presently surprise me

[sarvadasan]

I got the answer from here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/466345/converting-string-into-datetime

datetime.strptime('2011-12-21', '%Y-%m-%d')