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

Nicole A
Nicole A
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Posted by Nicole A
Nicole A
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Trying to return input date in a specific format

I am trying to create a function that returns the date entered in a specific format e.g 23 November 2022...what am I missing?

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
def to_string(datetime):
    return datetime.strptime ('datetime', '%d/ %B/ %Y')

1 Answer

Nicole A
Nicole A
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Nicole A
Nicole A
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import datetime
def to_string(datetime):
    return datetime.strftime('%d %B %Y')