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Jack Cummins
Jack Cummins
17,417 Points
Posted by Jack Cummins
Jack Cummins
17,417 Points

Please help me.

Would you please help me by giving me the code and then explaining it.

The task is: Now create a function named date_string that takes a datetime and returns a string like "May 20" using strftime. The format string is "%B %d".

Thank You! Jack

birthdays.py 
import datetime

birthdays = [
    datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 29),
    datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 9),
    datetime.datetime(1978, 5, 16),
    datetime.datetime(1981, 8, 15),
    datetime.datetime(2001, 7, 4),
    datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 30)
]

today = datetime.datetime.today()
#(4) return

def date_string(dy): #(1)ok done !!!!
    string = dy.strftime("%B %d") # (2) done! and (3) done! 
    return string # (4) done!
print(date_string(today)) # today = datetime.datetime.now()

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

Don't forget the hint given in all challenges: "Important: In each task of this code challenge, the code you write should be added to the code from the previous task."

Your task 2 function is OK, but the code for task 1 seems to have been removed. You need both functions to pass task 2.

Also, you won't need to "print" anything.