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

Posted by Eric Nachtsheim
Eric Nachtsheim
2,006 Points

Datetime objects

I'm not sure I understand what I'm doing wrong here. The format of the arguments match. I'm fairly certain I used the correct directives. Am I misunderstanding the question?

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

to_string = datetime.datetime.strptime('24 September 2012', '%d %B %Y')

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

Hey Eric Nachtsheim, you have the gist of the mechanics but the challenge is looking for a defined function to_string that accepts a datetime object and returns a string.

So wrap your assignment in a function, and operate on the argument instead of a string literal.

Hint to_string is to return a string, so use strftime

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!