title: How to compare standard Python 9-tuple time format?
body: <p>I am trying to write a simple news feed aggregator.</p>
  
  <p>I am using <a href="http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/</a>, and I get standard Python 9-tuple time format like (2004, 1, 1, 19, 48, 21, 3, 1, 0) for each post, <a href="http://packages.python.org/feedparser/date-parsing.html" rel="nofollow">http://packages.python.org/feedparser/date-parsing.html</a></p>
  
  <p>How do I compare this time format?</p>
  
  <p>If I want to know if an article in the feed is new or not, is comparing the time the only way?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot!</p>