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Python

Posted by Lyric Abbott
Lyric Abbott
35,595 Points

help

Create a new function named from_string that takes two strings, a date and a format, and returns a datetime based on them.

my code:

def to_string(date1): return date1.strftime("%d %B %Y")

def from_string(date_string, format): return datetime.strftime("%t %d %B %Y")

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/dates-and-times-in-python/dates-and-times/strftime-strptime

1 Answer

Samuel Webb
Samuel Webb
25,370 Points

Your goal for this is to use the strptime() method on the second one since you're trying to parse a string into a datetime. Basically your function from_string took the format parameter but it didn't use it anywhere. Here's what your code should look like.

import datetime

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

def from_string(dt, form):
  return datetime.datetime.strptime(dt, form)

The reason I'm using date time twice there is because the first one is the module and the second one is the class. strptime() is s method called on the datetime class.

Also, although it will still pass, try not to use the keyword format as a variable in your functions.