How do I calculate number of days betwen two dates using Python?
If you have two date objects, you can just subtract them.
from datetime import date
d0 = date(2008, 8, 18)
d1 = date(2008, 9, 26)
delta = d0 - d1
print delta.days
The relevant section of the docs: https://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html