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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Far Away

Posted by Tanzila Rafeeq
Tanzila Rafeeq
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Please give me help

Please Help Me!

far_away.py 
import datetime
def far_away(timedelta):
    datetime.datetime.timedelta.now()
    return datetime

1 Answer

Andy McDonald
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If I recall correctly, this wants you to add a time delta to the current time. You're going to want to use the add operator (+) and datetime.datetime.now() inside your code. If you need more help let me know. Show some love and select best answer if that's all you need.

Andy McDonald
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Hopefully, that does it but another thing kinda stood out to me that you should probably know about: your returning a variable that hasn't had anything assigned to it (datetime). If you want to assign line 3 of your code to the variable 'datetime' that would also work. But you could simplify this by simply returning the correct version of line 3 without variable assignment. Hopefully that is not too much information.