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Pankaj Gupta
3,469 Pointstimestrings.py
Create a new function named from_string that takes two arguments: a date as a string and an strftime-compatible format string, and returns a datetime created from them.
## 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(dt1):
return dt1.strftime("%d %B %Y")
def from_string(date, string):
now = datetime.datetime.now()
return now.strptime(string, "%d %B %Y")
2 Answers
Christian Mangeng
15,970 PointsHi Pankaj,
it is quite straightforward: the function should format the date argument with the format string argument, using .strptime(). That's all. You don't need the current time, and the format string is flexible in this case.
def from_string(date, format):
return datetime.datetime.strptime(date, format)
Tapiwanashe Taurayi
15,889 Pointsimport datetime
def to_string(dt1): return dt1.strftime("%d %B %Y")
def from_string(date, format): return datetime.datetime.strptime(date, format)