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Leon Fortgens
Courses Plus Student 3,788 PointsThe workspace seems bugged
The question: Create a function named to_string that takes a datetime and gives back a string in the format "24 September 2012".
My code: import datetime
def to_string(datetime): datetime = datetime.strftime('24 September 2012') return datetime
date_one = datetime.datetime.strptime("24 September, 2012", "%d %B, %Y") print(to_string(date_one))
The error message:
to_string returned the wrong string. Returned '24 September 2012'.
This has been really damn frustrating since it says i returning the string in the question but its wrong
1 Answer
Steven Parker
229,608 PointsThe sample date (24 September 2012) is given as a format example only, the function must use the parameter instead of a literal. When the challenge checks your work, it will pass a different date in for the argument.