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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Time Tango

bob simple
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bob simple
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Posted by bob simple
bob simple
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what format are date and time in?

Ho do I tell what format date and time are in, are they str?

combo.py 
import datetime

def time_tango(date, time):

  return datetime.datetime.strptime(str(date) + " " + str(time), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

1 Answer

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
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Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,532 Points

The challenge expects a datetime object, so you don't have to deal with formatting. There's a method specifically for combining date and time objects into a datetime, combine.

For checking types you can use the built in functions type or isinstance. Though you won't need that for this challenge here's an example:

isinstance("", str)

This will return True.