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Unashe Mutambashora
3,433 PointsIncreasing a datetime object
How do you increase a single element of a datetime object
import datetime
starter = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 16, 29)
def time_machine(integer,string):
if string == "days":
return starter + starter.replace( month = 0, day = integer, hour = 0, minute = 0)
elif string == "minutes":
return starter + starter.replace( month = 0, day = 0, hour = 0, minute = integer)
elif string == "hours":
return starter + starter.replace( month = 0, day = 0, hour = integer, minute = 0)
# Remember, you can't set "years" on a timedelta!
# Consider a year to be 365 days.
## Example
# time_machine(5, "minutes") => datetime(2015, 10, 21, 16, 34)
1 Answer
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Myers Carpenter
6,421 Pointsif you have two variables, dt (a datetime.datetime) and td (a datetime.timedelta) you can add them together and get another datetime.datetime.
https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/datetime.html#timedelta-objects