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MUZ140249 Sibusisiwe Dube
2,900 Pointschallenge task 2 of 2
Create a new function named from_string that takes two arguments: a date as a string and an strftime-compatible format string, and returns a datetime created from them i don't where am loosing it it says from_string am getting the current date which is 02-02-2015 00:00:00 while expected is 21-10-2015 00:00:00
import datetime
def to_string(datetime_object):
return datetime_object.strftime("%d %B %Y")
def from_string(arg1, arg2):
return datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.date.today(),datetime.time())
3 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsWell, in your from_string method, it takes 2 arguments, but you didn't use any of them in the method body, which you should.
def from_string(arg1, arg2):
return datetime.datetime.strptime(arg1, arg2)
Alexander Torres
4,486 PointsI hope this helps! :)
def from_string(arg1, arg2): arg1 = "09/24/12" arg2 = "%m/%d/%y" return datetime.datetime.strptime(arg1, arg2)
Jingru Zhang
3,641 PointsWhy strftime() doesn't need "datetime.datetime." before it but strptime() needs it?
Kyle Salisbury
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 16,363 PointsIt's because in the strftime() function, the argument being placed is the datetime.datetime command. So whatever your argument name is, in the case of the guy above it is datetime_obeject, in reality it is just a code name for datetime.datetime.now()