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Ok, so I'm making something that counts down the number of days to an event.

Here's the code to the one that works (without user input):

import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
someday = datetime.date(2015,8,24)
diff = someday - today
print(diff.days)

Here's the one that doesn't work (with user input):

import datetime
import console
today = datetime.date.today()
find = console.input_alert('Date', 'Please enter the date you would like to countdown to.\ni.e. 2009 (year),6 (month),29 (day)', '', 'Enter')
someday = datetime.date(find)
diff = someday - today
print(diff.days)

Thanks in advance!

console.input_alert returns a string, but you need three numbers. You could convert it like this:

# ...
try:
  year, month, day = [int(s.strip()) for s in find.split(',')]
  someday = datetime.date(year, month, day)
  diff = someday - today
  print(diff.days)
except ValueError:
  print 'Incorrect date format (must be "year, month, day")'

Thanks a lot @omz!