How to check if a date in the format of MM DD lies between 2 dates?

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list=[["capricorn","december 22", "january 19"],
      ["aquarius","january 20", "february 18"],
      ["pisces","february 19", "march 20"],
      ["aries","march 21", "april 19"],
      ["taurus","april 20", "may 20"],
      ["gemini","may 21","june 20"],
      ["cancer","june 21", "july 22"],
      ["leo","jul 23", "august 22"],
      ["virgo","august 23", "september 22"],
      ["libra","september 23", "october 22"],
      ["scorpio","october 23", "november 21"],
      ["sagittarius","november 22", "december 21"]]

Ask the user for an input and then return the zodiac sign if date lies between 2 dates.

What I have tried:

Eg :-If a date lies between december 22 and January 19 then capricorn should be printed

Posted 18-Aug-22 3:16am

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Updated 4-Sep-22 10:36am

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PIEBALDconsult 18-Aug-22 9:26am

Use proper DateTime (or equivalent) data types.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2022-09-04T10:36:00

A datetime object should contain at least 3 parts: year, month and day.

There's several ways to convert string into date. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2803852/python-date-string-to-date-object[^]

For example:

Python

from dateutil import parser
y = 2022
d1 = parser.parse(f"{y} december 22")
d2 = parser.parse(f"{y + 1} january 19")
print(d1, d2)

For date comparison - check this out: Python Compare DateTime - Python Examples[^]