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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Let's Build a Timed Quiz App Simple Time Machine

Posted by Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Dates and times problem

What is wrong? The error is " Bummer! unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'datetime.datetime' and 'int' " Can someone help me out please?

Thanks in advance! :dizzy:

time_machine.py 
import datetime

starter = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 16, 29)

def delorean(x):
    return starter + x

1 Answer

Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points
Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points

x is an integer that represents some number of hours. The way you have your code written, however, the function has no idea that this is the case. To fix this, you need to use datetime.timedelta(key=value), where key is hours and value is x:

    return starter + datetime.timedelta(hours=x)

I hope this helps!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Thank you so much!