Objective (task 1 of 2):

Write a function named is_2012 that accepts a single argument and returns whether that argument's year attribute is equal to 2012.

Here's the link to the Filter objective:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/functional-python/functional-workhorses/filter-2

So I tried:

def is_2012(year):
  if year == 2012:
    return True

This gives me:

Bummer! is_2012 returned False for a 2012 datetime.

So I try:

def is_2012(year):
  if year == datetime(2012):
    return True

Again I get:

Bummer! is_2012 returned False for a 2012 datetime.

Alright...what if I try:

def is_2012(year): 
  return True

This gives me:

Well done! You're doing great!

That is --I'm doing great at "faking out" the answer for task 1 of the objective..

Not so fast, though!!!!!

The second part of the objective is:

Challenge Task 2 of 2

Now create a variable named dt_2012 that uses filter() and is_2012 to return only the datetimes from dates that are from the year 2012.

Somehow I don't think my "faked out" is_2012 function

from part one is really going to be of much help when attempting to

to frame some sort of working code (in combination with filter() )

to solve for task 2 of the objective.

What do you think?

Maybe the testing for part 1 should have included testing for dates that weren't "2012"

(like "2013", "2011", etc.) to see

if the "is_2012" function provided passes a "false" test in these cases.

Then (and only then) might the "is_2012" function be useful for filtering purposes in part 2 of the objective (is what I'm thinking).

While I was waiting for someone to notice this forum thread I tried

testing dozens and dozens of possible answers for Part 1 and

found this code also seems to work:

def is_2012(dates):
  return dates.year == 2012

Maybe that was the intended answer...I don't really know.

How could that be worked into a filter() for task 2 though?

After dozens of tries (and still no answer to this thread),

I finally hit on:

def is_2012(dates):
  return dates.year == 2012

Which seemed to solve task 2 of the objective.

So I completed both task 1 and task 2 of the objective,

however, my question still remains:

Should the code below have been excepted as a valid answer to Part1 of the objective?

def is_2012(year): 
  return True

..because it doesn't do any sort of equality test to return:

whether that argument's year attribute is equal to 2012.