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

Jackson Lai
Jackson Lai
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DATETIME - I don't understand this... I should be right...

it said: Bummer! to_string returned the wrong string. Returned '21 Oct 2015'.

my return and it's required format are same... whats the problem with it? Please teacher me...

timestrings.py
import datetime
## Examples
# to_string(datetime_object) => "24 September 2012"
# from_string("09/24/12 18:30", "%m/%d/%y %H:%M") => datetime
def to_string(dt):
    return dt.strftime("%d %b %Y")

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