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1#! /usr/bin/env python
2
3# Calculate your unbirthday count (see Alice in Wonderland).
4# This is defined as the number of days from your birth until today
5# that weren't your birthday.  (The day you were born is not counted).
6# Leap years make it interesting.
7
8import sys
9import time
10import calendar
11
12def main():
13    if sys.argv[1:]:
14        year = int(sys.argv[1])
15    else:
16        year = int(raw_input('In which year were you born? '))
17    if 0 <= year < 100:
18        print "I'll assume that by", year,
19        year = year + 1900
20        print 'you mean', year, 'and not the early Christian era'
21    elif not (1850 <= year <= time.localtime()[0]):
22        print "It's hard to believe you were born in", year
23        return
24
25    if sys.argv[2:]:
26        month = int(sys.argv[2])
27    else:
28        month = int(raw_input('And in which month? (1-12) '))
29    if not (1 <= month <= 12):
30        print 'There is no month numbered', month
31        return
32
33    if sys.argv[3:]:
34        day = int(sys.argv[3])
35    else:
36        day = int(raw_input('And on what day of that month? (1-31) '))
37    if month == 2 and calendar.isleap(year):
38        maxday = 29
39    else:
40        maxday = calendar.mdays[month]
41    if not (1 <= day <= maxday):
42        print 'There are no', day, 'days in that month!'
43        return
44
45    bdaytuple = (year, month, day)
46    bdaydate = mkdate(bdaytuple)
47    print 'You were born on', format(bdaytuple)
48
49    todaytuple = time.localtime()[:3]
50    todaydate = mkdate(todaytuple)
51    print 'Today is', format(todaytuple)
52
53    if bdaytuple > todaytuple:
54        print 'You are a time traveler.  Go back to the future!'
55        return
56
57    if bdaytuple == todaytuple:
58        print 'You were born today.  Have a nice life!'
59        return
60
61    days = todaydate - bdaydate
62    print 'You have lived', days, 'days'
63
64    age = 0
65    for y in range(year, todaytuple[0] + 1):
66        if bdaytuple < (y, month, day) <= todaytuple:
67            age = age + 1
68
69    print 'You are', age, 'years old'
70
71    if todaytuple[1:] == bdaytuple[1:]:
72        print 'Congratulations!  Today is your', nth(age), 'birthday'
73        print 'Yesterday was your',
74    else:
75        print 'Today is your',
76    print nth(days - age), 'unbirthday'
77
78def format((year, month, day)):
79    return '%d %s %d' % (day, calendar.month_name[month], year)
80
81def nth(n):
82    if n == 1: return '1st'
83    if n == 2: return '2nd'
84    if n == 3: return '3rd'
85    return '%dth' % n
86
87def mkdate((year, month, day)):
88    # January 1st, in 0 A.D. is arbitrarily defined to be day 1,
89    # even though that day never actually existed and the calendar
90    # was different then...
91    days = year*365                  # years, roughly
92    days = days + (year+3)//4        # plus leap years, roughly
93    days = days - (year+99)//100     # minus non-leap years every century
94    days = days + (year+399)//400    # plus leap years every 4 centirues
95    for i in range(1, month):
96        if i == 2 and calendar.isleap(year):
97            days = days + 29
98        else:
99            days = days + calendar.mdays[i]
100    days = days + day
101    return days
102
103if __name__ == "__main__":
104    main()
105