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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times strftime & strptime

Brent Liang
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Brent Liang
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Posted by Brent Liang
Brent Liang
Courses Plus Student 2,944 Points

Query for code challenge

The problem asks to convert a given datetime object into a string.

What's wrong with my code?

timestrings.py 
## Examples
# to_string(datetime_object) => "24 September 2012"
# from_string("09/24/12 18:30", "%m/%d/%y %H:%M") => datetime
import datetime
def to_string (datetime_object):
    string_sorted = datetime.datetime_object.strftime ("%m/%d/%y %H:%M")
    string_back = string_sorted.strptime ("%d %B %Y")
    return string_back

1 Answer

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

:point_right: Remember "f" is for "format" (output), and "p" is for "parse" (input).

Also, for task one, you are given a datetime already, so no parsing is needed. Just format it using strftime to create the string_back.