In my config I have

```
SKIP_DATES = ['2016-02-11', '2016-02-13']

```

Then in my script I have 

```
if dt.date() in config.SKIP_DATES:
    print "Skipping date: {0}".format(dt.date())
    continue

```

But this will not work because dt.date is a datetime.date object and config.SKIP\_DATES is a list of 'string dates'.

How can I easily get around this?

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