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Ken Bynell
5,934 PointsFunction returns a combined datetime object, but I'm still getting the wrong answer.
This is the way I did it, unless maybe there's an alternate method using operators? Or maybe the solution is looking for something else? I even ran an isinstance test on combined_date and datetime came back true. Not really sure what else to do here.
from datetime import datetime
def time_tango(user_date, user_time):
combined_date = datetime.combine(user_date, user_time)
return combined_date
2 Answers
boi
14,242 PointsYou got two errors. Let us analyze.
from datetime import datetime 👈# what is the first datetime? you only need import datetime
def time_tango(user_date, user_time):
combined_date = datetime.combine(user_date, user_time)👈# datetime.combine is a wrong package
return combined_date
datetime.combine() is a wrong pacakage or datetime don't have the extension of combine(), check it yourself.
try this in the REPL;
>>> import datetime
>>> dir(datetime)
['MAXYEAR', 'MINYEAR', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__'
, 'date', 'datetime', 'datetime_CAPI', 'sys', 'time', 'timedelta', 'timezone', 'tzinfo']
>>>
>>> dir(datetime.datetime)
['__add__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__',
'__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__radd__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rsub__
', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', 'astimezone',👉 'combine' 👈, 'ctime', 'date', 'day', 'dst', 'fold',
'fromisocalendar', 'fromisoformat', 'fromordinal', 'fromtimestamp', 'hour', 'isocalendar', 'isoformat', 'isoweekday', 'max', 'microsecond'
, 'min', 'minute', 'month', 'now', 'replace', 'resolution', 'second', 'strftime', 'strptime', 'time', 'timestamp', 'timetuple', 'timetz',
'today', 'toordinal', 'tzinfo', 'tzname', 'utcfromtimestamp', 'utcnow', 'utcoffset', 'utctimetuple', 'weekday', 'year']
>>>
As shown, there is no combine() extension with datetime, it should be datetime.datetime.combine().
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsI think there’s more going on here. All of these should work equally as well:
# as module import
>>> import datetime
>>> help(datetime.datetime.combine)
Help on built-in function combine:
combine(...)
date, time -> datetime with same date and time fields
# as renamed class import
>>> from datetime import datetime as dt
>>> help(dt.combine)
Help on built-in function combine:
combine(...)
date, time -> datetime with same date and time fields
# as direct class import
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> help(datetime.combine)
Help on built-in function combine:
combine(...)
date, time -> datetime with same date and time fields
This needs further review.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsUsing the REPL example:
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> dir(datetime)
[‘__add__’, ‘__class__’, ‘__delattr__’, ‘__dir__’, ‘__doc__’, ‘__eq__’, ‘__format__’, ‘__ge__’, ‘__getattribute__’, ‘__gt__’, ‘__hash__’, ‘__init__’, ‘__le__’, ‘__lt__’, ‘__ne__’, ‘__new__’, ‘__radd__’, ‘__reduce__’, ‘__reduce_ex__’, ‘__repr__’, ‘__rsub__’, ‘__setattr__’, ‘__sizeof__’, ‘__str__’, ‘__sub__’, ‘__subclasshook__’, ‘astimezone’, 👉'combine'👈, ‘ctime’, ‘date’, ‘day’, ‘dst’, ‘fromordinal’, ‘fromtimestamp’, ‘hour’, ‘isocalendar’, ‘isoformat’, ‘isoweekday’, ‘max’, ‘microsecond’, ‘min’, ‘minute’, ‘month’, ‘now’, ‘replace’, ‘resolution’, ‘second’, ‘strftime’, ‘strptime’, ‘time’, ‘timestamp’, ‘timetuple’, ‘timetz’, ‘today’, ‘toordinal’, ‘tzinfo’, ‘tzname’, ‘utcfromtimestamp’, ‘utcnow’, ‘utcoffset’, ‘utctimetuple’, ‘weekday’, ‘year’]
>>>
Ken Bynell
5,934 PointsSweet, thanks. I'm using my own IDE and the command prompt and have different imports for both, so it was probably getting confused.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsDevs: this code should pass. The level of import should not matter in this case. Please review checker behavior.