<p>If I have two dates (ex. <code>'8/18/2008'</code> and <code>'9/26/2008'</code>), what is the best way to get the number of days between these two dates?</p>

If you have two date objects, you can just subtract them, which computes a
```
timedelta
```
object.
```
```
from datetime import date

d0 = date(2008, 8, 18)
d1 = date(2008, 9, 26)
delta = d1 - d0
print(delta.days)
```
```
The relevant section of the docs:
https://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html
.
See
this answer
for another example.