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Now create a function named date_string that takes a datetime and returns a string like "May 20" using strftime. The for

I need the answer.

birthdays.py
import datetime

birthdays = [
    datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 29),
    datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 9),
    datetime.datetime(1978, 5, 16),
    datetime.datetime(1981, 8, 15),
    datetime.datetime(2001, 7, 4),
    datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 30)
]

today = datetime.datetime.today()

def is_over_13(dt):
    # compare total days
    delta = today - dt
    return delta.days >= 4745

1 Answer

Jeff Muday
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Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

You're super close to the answer. If you change the return statement to calculate the timedelta on the constant, you will have it.

def is_over_13(dt):
    # compare total days
    delta = today - dt
    return delta >= datetime.timdelta(4745) # here is the correction