Convert datetime (e.g. 2016-01-01, 2016-01-11) to integer days (e.g. 0, 11) in Python
Question: **Is it possible to convert a timestamp object in the format "2016-01-01"
(year month day) into number of days from new years?**

I'm getting my timestamp object by `str(pandas.to_datetime('today')).split("
")[0]`

I would put code that I used to get it started but I don't even know where to
begin except by making a dictionary for how many days are in each month and
then calculating it the long way. Is there something built in that I can use
for this?


Answer: 
    from datetime import datetime, timedelta, date
    import dateutil
    st_date = '2016-11-01'
    dt = dateutil.parser.parse(st_date).date()
    tm_diff = dt - date(2016, 1, 1);
    print tm_diff.days
    

