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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Wikipedia Links

Vidhya Sagar
Vidhya Sagar
1,568 Points
Posted by Vidhya Sagar
Vidhya Sagar
1,568 Points

CODE CHALLENGE IN DATE and TIME

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 :

2 Answers

givens
givens
7,484 Points

datetime.datetime.strptime is necessary when using import datetime.

Rastko Jovic
Rastko Jovic
14,883 Points
Rastko Jovic
Rastko Jovic
14,883 Points

It looks something like this:

def from_string(date_string, format_string):
     return time.strptime(date_string, format_string)
Ullas Savkoor
Ullas Savkoor
6,028 Points

Shouldn't it be datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, format_string)? or have you done an aliasing of the import eg:from datetime import datetime; time = datetime