Setting a variable to a date in Python

I am getting around to moving my legacy AppleScript to Python. I want to set a variable to a date that is 75 days in the future. How would you code that? I imagine it is pretty straightforward.

[jay (support)]

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from datetime import date, timedelta
target_date = date.today() + timedelta(days=75)
indigo.variable.updateValue(ID_OF_VAR, value=str(target_date))

Will result in something like 2019-08-05 as the variable value. You can format the date if you prefer a different date string.

That works. Now how do I convert a variable to a number? That is., I have a variable that is a number, but it is not considered a number by python. I have extracted the content of a variable by using:

var_test = indigo.variables[ID_OF_VARIABLE)]

I use that with the line:

target_date = date.today() + timedelta(days=var_test)

The error I get is "unsupported type for timedelta days component: Variable"

Sorry for the newbie questions.

var_test = int(indigo.variables[ID].value)


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Thank you!! This is my first script conversion. I appreciate everyone's help!

[jay (support)]

var_test = int(indigo.variables[ID].value)

Or, alternately:

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var_test = indigo.variables[ID].getValue(int)

As a nicer way to get variable int, that’s possible.

As a more wider means of casting to int across Python, mine is more transferable.

.getValue(int) doesn’t work on a random Python string.


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[jay (support)]

Just presenting options...

Actually, our .getValue method is better at casting between types than going directly to Python. For instance:

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>>> indigo.variables[1531327628].value
u'1.2'
>>> int(indigo.variables[1531327628].value)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1.2'
>>> indigo.variables[1531327628].getValue(int)
1
>>>

And:

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>>> indigo.variables[241925870].value
u'false'
>>> bool(indigo.variables[241925870].value)
True
>>> indigo.variables[241925870].getValue(bool)
False
>>>