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zfusdjitsz
2,797 PointsI tested this in a shell and it appears to be working as intended. Can anyone offer insight?
def timestamp_oldest(timestamp_args):
max_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp_args[0])
for current_time in timestamp_args:
if datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(current_time) < max_time:
max_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(current_time)
return max_time
I guess I should mention the error I'm getting. I'm paraphrasing but it says that timestamp_oldest takes 1 argument but 8 given.
Anthony Liu
11,374 PointsIn the prompt it states "any number of POSIX timestamp arguments" because the number of arguments is unknown we add "*" in front of the argument to denote any possible number of arguments.
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherYeah, the "any number of" is the clue that you need to accept an unknown number of items. I'll try to make that a bit more clear. Glad you figured out the answer!
zfusdjitsz
2,797 PointsGot ya! Thanks to both Anthony Liu and Kenneth Love. I must have dozed while that was being covered. I'll remember that going forward. Thanks again guys
zfusdjitsz
2,797 Pointszfusdjitsz
2,797 PointsI was going to delete this post but I figure just in case someone else has any trouble it'll be here. I need to take some additional time to understand the packing and unpacking of tuples. I added an '*' so that the function definition essentially starts with
```def timestamp_oldest(*timestamp_args)
I totally guessed that though (shot in the dark) so I need to understand why that worked.