Quick Python question

[Adam Russell]

Back when I had a lot of date processing to do in Python
mxDateTime was a huge time saver!
Check it out:
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/


 >Message: 10
 >Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:03:38 -0400
 >From: Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
 >Subject: Quick Python question
 >To: Boston Linux and Unix <discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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 >Recently, I've had to start writing some Python code. My question is
 >specific to the datetime object.
 >Basically, given a date, I need to add years to that date. One way to do
 >it is:
 >
 >from datetime import date
 >d = date.today() # initialize d to some date
 >d = date(d.year + 1, d.month, d.day)
 >
 >In the above case I'm setting a date object d to todays date, then
 >advancing it to the next year. Is there a more elegant or efficient way
 >of doing this in Python. The above method certainly works fine except
 >for February 29th, which is not important.