Age from birthdate in python

Question

How can I find an age in python from today's date and a persons birthdate? The birthdate is a from a DateField in a Django model.

Answer 1

import datetime

def age(date_of_birth):
    if date_of_birth > datetime.date.today().replace(year = date_of_birth.year):
        return datetime.date.today().year - date_of_birth.year - 1
    else:
        return datetime.date.today().year - date_of_birth.year

In your case:

import datetime

# your model
def age(self):
    if self.birthdate > datetime.date.today().replace(year = self.birthdate.year):
        return datetime.date.today().year - self.birthdate.year - 1
    else:
        return datetime.date.today().year - self.birthdate.year

Answer 2

Here is a solution to find age of a person as either years or months or days.

Lets say a person's date of birth is 2012-01-17T00:00:00 Therefore, his age on 2013-01-16T00:00:00 will be 11 months

or if he is born on 2012-12-17T00:00:00, his age on 2013-01-12T00:00:00 will be 26 days

or if he is born on 2000-02-29T00:00:00, his age on 2012-02-29T00:00:00 will be 12 years

You will need to import datetime.

Here is the code:

def get_person_age(date_birth, date_today):

"""
At top level there are three possibilities : Age can be in days or months or years.
For age to be in years there are two cases: Year difference is one or Year difference is more than 1
For age to be in months there are two cases: Year difference is 0 or 1
For age to be in days there are 4 possibilities: Year difference is 1(20-dec-2012 - 2-jan-2013),
                                                 Year difference is 0, Months difference is 0 or 1
"""
years_diff = date_today.year - date_birth.year
months_diff = date_today.month - date_birth.month
days_diff = date_today.day - date_birth.day
age_in_days = (date_today - date_birth).days

age = years_diff
age_string = str(age) + " years"

# age can be in months or days.
if years_diff == 0:
    if months_diff == 0:
        age = age_in_days
        age_string = str(age) + " days"
    elif months_diff == 1:
        if days_diff < 0:
            age = age_in_days
            age_string = str(age) + " days"
        else:
            age = months_diff
            age_string = str(age) + " months"
    else:
        if days_diff < 0:
            age = months_diff - 1
        else:
            age = months_diff
        age_string = str(age) + " months"
# age can be in years, months or days.
elif years_diff == 1:
    if months_diff < 0:
        age = months_diff + 12
        age_string = str(age) + " months" 
        if age == 1:
            if days_diff < 0:
                age = age_in_days
                age_string = str(age) + " days" 
        elif days_diff < 0:
            age = age-1
            age_string = str(age) + " months"
    elif months_diff == 0:
        if days_diff < 0:
            age = 11
            age_string = str(age) + " months"
        else:
            age = 1
            age_string = str(age) + " years"
    else:
        age = 1
        age_string = str(age) + " years"
# The age is guaranteed to be in years.
else:
    if months_diff < 0:
        age = years_diff - 1
    elif months_diff == 0:
        if days_diff < 0:
            age = years_diff - 1
        else:
            age = years_diff
    else:
        age = years_diff
    age_string = str(age) + " years"

if age == 1:
    age_string = age_string.replace("years", "year").replace("months", "month").replace("days", "day")

return age_string

Some extra functions used in the above codes are:

def get_todays_date():
    """
    This function returns todays date in proper date object format
    """
    return datetime.now()

And

def get_date_format(str_date):
"""
This function converts string into date type object
"""
str_date = str_date.split("T")[0]
return datetime.strptime(str_date, "%Y-%m-%d")

Now, we have to feed get_date_format() with the strings like 2000-02-29T00:00:00

It will convert it into the date type object which is to be fed to get_person_age(date_birth, date_today).

The function get_person_age(date_birth, date_today) will return age in string format.

Answer 3

The simplest way is using python-dateutil

import datetime

import dateutil

def birthday(date):
    # Get the current date
    now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
    now = now.date()

    # Get the difference between the current date and the birthday
    age = dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(now, date)
    age = age.years

    return age

Answer 4

Slightly modified Danny's solution for easier reading and understanding

    from datetime import date

    def calculate_age(birth_date):
        today = date.today()
        age = today.year - birth_date.year
        full_year_passed = (today.month, today.day) < (birth_date.month, birth_date.day)
        if not full_year_passed:
            age -= 1
        return age

Answer 5

That can be done much simpler considering that int(True) is 1 and int(False) is 0:

from datetime import date

def calculate_age(born):
    today = date.today()
    return today.year - born.year - ((today.month, today.day) < (born.month, born.day))

Answer 6

If you're looking to print this in a page using django templates, then the following might be enough:

{{ birth_date|timesince }}