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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times strftime & strptime

darcyprice
darcyprice
4,442 Points
Posted by darcyprice
darcyprice
4,442 Points

I believe that I have solved the Challenge (Task 2), but I get a message saying "Task 1 is no longer passing".

I completed Task 1 with the included code and didn't adjust it in Task 2.

I am not sure why Task 1 would now not be passing, unless I am misunderstanding the question, and Task 2 requires us to edit def to_string?

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks all ! :)

timestrings.py 
# to_string(datetime_object) => "24 September 2012"
# from_string("09/24/12 18:30", "%m/%d/%y %H:%M") => datetime

import datetime


def to_string(dt):
    return dt.strftime('%d %B %Y')

def from_string(str_dt, str_strftime)
    """
    Accept a date as a string (str_dt) and an strftime-compatible format string (str_strftime)
    and return a datetime created from time

    >>> from_string('09 March 2018', '%d %B %Y')
    datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
    """
    return datetime.datetime.strftime(str_dt, str_strftime)

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Any syntax error will invalidate the entire program and cause the re-validations to fail.

In this case it is caused by a missing colon at the end of the "def" line of the new function.

The function also has "strftime" instead of "strptime".

darcyprice
darcyprice
4,442 Points
darcyprice
darcyprice
4,442 Points

Ahhhh what a silly mistake,

Thank you Steven, much appreciative! :)

I review the difference between strftime and strptime now too