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

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datetime conversion works in interpreter but not challenge

Hmm this function seems to work in the interpreter but not the challenge although the challenge does also tell me the output is 15 October 2014 which is the format the question is looking for?

timestrings.py 
import datetime


def to_string(dt):
    return dt.strftime('%d  %B %Y')

6 Answers

Mikael Enarsson
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Mikael Enarsson
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You have accidentally added 2 whitespaces between '%d' and '%B'. Otherwise everything looks perfect!

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Don't worry, I didn't need the quotes round the string....

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wow good spot! thank you.

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mm I seem to get an error in the second part too?

def from_string(stdate, form):
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(stdate, 'form')
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Thanks for the encouragement

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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
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The worst programming errors are the little ones.