Calculate-age.md

13.3: Calculate age

The Problem

Take a birthday of a person and then calculate the age.

This code and solution is contributed by Programmer Karim.

Hints

Take the user birthday. Use the same method that you used in the previous problem.

Then, to calculate age, get the days and then divide the days by 365.

(This is not the perfect way to calculate age...Feel free to find better solutions)

Solution

This code is contributed by Programmer Karim...

fromdatetimeimportdatetimeimporttimedefcalculate_age(born): today=datetime.today() days= (today-born).daysage=days//365returnagedefget_user_birthday(): date_str=input("Enter your birth date in DD/MM/YYYY: ") try: birthday=datetime.strptime(date_str, "%d/%m/%Y") exceptTypeError: birthday=datetime.datetime(*(time.strptime(date_str, "%d/%m/%Y")[0:6])) returnbirthdaybirthday=get_user_birthday() age=calculate_age(birthday) print("Your age: ", age)

Explanation

You used the datetime earlier. And then, calculated the days between the birth date and today’s date.

Then, divide the days by 365 to get the age!

   

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