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Leo Marco Corpuz
18,975 PointsDatetime question
Lately, I’m not understanding why we’re using dot notation on datetime twice. (Example. datetime.datetime.now()). The answer for the the next challenge (second task) requires using dot notation twice on datetime before adding the strftime method.
2 Answers
diogorferreira
19,363 PointsIt was confusing at first to me too but to make it easier imagine we import datetime as dt. The module dt (datetime) has a method called datetime and others too such as date, time, timedelta, etc... From there you can call dt.datetime.now() or many others, here's some examples.
I recommend reading this explanation, explains it much better than I can
import datetime as dt
dt.datetime.now()
dt.timedelta.days
dt.timedelta.seconds
dt.date.strftime()
diogorferreira
19,363 PointsHappy to help!
Leo Marco Corpuz
18,975 PointsLeo Marco Corpuz
18,975 PointsThanks!