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Python Functional Python Functional Workhorses Map and Filter

please help on this i cant pass this

please help i cant this task

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()
def is_over_13(dt):
    # compare total days
    delta = today - dt
    return delta.days >= 4745
def date_string(dt):
    delta=today
    return delta.strftime("%B %d")

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,272 Points

The instructions say, "Now create a function named date_string that takes a datetime and returns a string ..."

Note that there is nothing said about comparing the argument with today, just use it directly.