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

Kennedy Malonga
Kennedy Malonga
22,856 Points
Posted by Kennedy Malonga
Kennedy Malonga
22,856 Points

Create a new function named from_string that takes two arguments: a date as a string and an strftime-compatible format s

Can someone please help with a screenshot of the solution

timestrings.py 
## Examples
# 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(date1):
    return date1.strftime("%d %B %Y")

datetime.strftime("%m/%d/%y %H:%M")
from_string("09/24/12 18:30", datetime)
print(from_string)
Kelly Hughes
Kelly Hughes
2,444 Points
Kelly Hughes
Kelly Hughes
2,444 Points

Is this the full code? I'm just wondering because I don't see where you call the function "to_string".

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

You don't need to call the new functions in the challenge, but you create two (one for each task). So you can remove all the code after the function definition.

But to finish task 2, you still need to define the function "from_string".