Python实现的一些常用日期函数

以下是一些常用的日期函数的实现，每个函数开头的注释中说明了函数的作用，问题的出处可以参考《编程珠玑》第三章练习题4

def leapYear(year):
    """
    decide whether year is leap year.
    for exmaple:
    1900, not leap year
    2000,leap year
    2004,leap year
    2005,not leap year
    """
    if year%400==0:
        return True
    elif year%100==0:
        return False
    elif year%4==0:
        return True
    else:
        return False

def dayInYear(year,month,day):
    """
    calculate the given date's postion in the year
    careful about the leap year adjustment
    """
    baseMonthDay=[31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]
    acc=0
    if leapYear(year) and month>2:
        acc+=1
    for i in range(month-1):
        acc+=baseMonthDay[i]
    acc+=day
    return acc
def weekDayInYear(year,month,day):
    """
    calculate the week day of the given date
    there exist a formula to do this job,you can google it,
    the following code implement the formula
    note zero stands for Sunday
    """
    if month<3:
        year=year-1
        month=12+month
    c=year/100
    y=year%100
    m=month
    d=day
    w=y+y/4+c/4-2*c+26*(m+1)/10+d-1
    return w%7
def dateDiff(year1,month1,day1,year2,month2,day2):
    """
    calculate the difference between two given dates
    we assume that the first date is after the second date,
    so if assumption no true,we need swap the two date and
    remember that the difference is negative.
    """
    if year1==year2:
        return dayInYear(year1,month1,day1)-dayInYear(year2,month2,day2)
    reverse=False
    if year1<year2:
        tmp=year1
        year1=year2
        year2=tmp
        tmp=month1
        month1=month2
        month2=tmp
        tmp=day1
        day1=day2
        day2=tmp
        reverse=True
    acc=0
    if leapYear(year2):
        acc+=(366-dayInYear(year2,month2,day2))
    else:
        acc+=(365-dayInYear(year2,month2,day2))
    for i in range(year2+1,year1):
        if leapYear(i):
            acc+=366
        else:
            acc+=365
    acc+=dayInYear(year1,month1,day1)
    if reverse:
        return -acc
    else:
        return acc
def monthCalendar(year,month):
    """
    print the given month's calendar.
    the primary thing need to be done is to find out the
    first day's postion in the given month,after that,we
    just need to spread our number after that postion
    """
    names=['Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday']
    printFormat="%10s %10s %10s %10s %10s %10s %10s"
    weekDay=weekDayInYear(year,month,1)
    print printFormat % tuple(names)
    baseMonthDay=[31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]
    monthDay=baseMonthDay[month-1]
    if leapYear(year) and month==2:
        monthDay+=1
    index=weekDay
    initalList=["" for i in range(7)]
    for i in range(1,monthDay+1):
        initalList[index]=str(i)
        index=(index+1)%7
        if index==0:
            print printFormat % tuple(initalList)
            initalList=["" for i in range(7)]
    if initalList[0]!="":
        print printFormat % tuple(initalList)