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February 21, 2012 16:13
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Determine age from a date of birth
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| from datetime import date | |
| def determine_age(dob): | |
| """ | |
| Surprisingly nontrivial - I don't claim this function to be very correct... | |
| """ | |
| today = date.today() | |
| age = today.year - dob.year | |
| if today.month < dob.month: | |
| age -= 1 | |
| elif today.month == dob.month: | |
| if today.day < dob.day: | |
| age -= 1 | |
| return age |
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