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

Patrick Harry
Patrick Harry
19,114 Points
Posted by Patrick Harry
Patrick Harry
19,114 Points

Bummer! `to_string` returned the wrong string. Returned '18 June 2017'.

It says that I am returning the wrong string. It looks correct to me. What am I doing wrong?

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

def to_string(datetime_object):
    now = datetime_object.now()
    return now.strftime("%d %B %Y")

1 Answer

Osher Jacobs
Osher Jacobs
2,226 Points

I suspect this may have something to do with the working environment maybe not accepting the dynamic '.now' as a valid argument. Treehouse would have to confirm this. Try entering a date value as follows and see if it works. My code I just typed up is:

import datetime

def to_string(datetime_object):
    date_example = datetime_object.strftime("%d %B %Y")
    return date_example

date_var = datetime.datetime(2014,9,24)

print(to_string(date_var))

Hope this helps.

Patrick Harry
Patrick Harry
19,114 Points
Patrick Harry
Patrick Harry
19,114 Points

You're right. I was incorrect including .now(). Thanks!