How to check if a date has Passed in Python (Simply)

Question

I have looked around to see if I can find a simple method in Python to find out if a date has passed.

For example:- If the date is 01/05/2015, and the date; 30/04/2015 was in-putted into Python, it would return True, to say the date has passed.

This needs to be as simple and efficient as possible.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

you may use datetime, first parse String to date, then you can compare

import datetime
d1 = datetime.datetime.strptime('05/01/2015', "%d/%m/%Y").date()
d2 = datetime.datetime.strptime('30/04/2015', "%d/%m/%Y").date()
d2>d1