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Safae Merigh
9,827 PointsValueError : timedata does not match format
I have a function that accepts a date written by the user. This date is a string. I want to convert it to a date. I would write :
def user_date() : date = input("Enter Date (mm/dd/yyyy) ") my_date = datetime.datetime.strptime("date", "%m-%d-%Y")
I get the error : ValueError: time data 'user_input_date' does not match format '%m-%d-%Y'
Why is that?
1 Answer
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boi
14,242 Pointsimport datetime
def user_date() :
date = input("Enter Date (mm/dd/yyyy) ") 👈 #Here you used a slash ( / ), use hyphen ( - ) instead, because you
# declared a hyphen as a format not slash ( / ).
my_date = datetime.datetime.strptime("date", "%m-%d-%Y") 👈#You're "date" is a string literal, it should be a variable.
return my_date
Fix
import datetime
def user_date():
date = input("Enter Date (mm-dd-yyyy) ")
return datetime.datetime.strptime(date, "%m-%d-%Y")