days-diff.py

'''
author: Jacob Egner
date: 2015-07-27
island: elementary

for latest versions of my solutions, see my checkio solution github repo:
https://github.com/jmegner/CheckioPuzzles

'''

import datetime


def days_diff(date1, date2):
    return abs((datetime.date(*date2) - datetime.date(*date1)).days)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    #These "asserts" using only for self-checking and not necessary for auto-testing
    assert days_diff((1982, 4, 19), (1982, 4, 22)) == 3
    assert days_diff((2014, 1, 1), (2014, 8, 27)) == 238
    assert days_diff((2014, 8, 27), (2014, 1, 1)) == 238