I would like to have the user input a date, something like:
date = input('Date (m/dd/yyyy): ')
and then make sure that the input is a valid date. I don't really care that much about the date format.
Thanks for any input.
You can use the time
module's strptime()
function:
import time
date = input('Date (mm/dd/yyyy): ')
try:
valid_date = time.strptime(date, '%m/%d/%Y')
except ValueError:
print('Invalid date!')
Note that in Python 2.x you'll need to use raw_input
instead of input
.