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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Far Away

Khaleel Yusuf
Khaleel Yusuf
15,208 Points
Posted by Khaleel Yusuf
Khaleel Yusuf
15,208 Points

Write a function called far_away that takes one argument, a timedelta. Add that timedelta to datetime.datetime.now() and

I need so much help.

far_away.py 
import datetime

def far_away(time):
    future = datetime.datetime.now() + time


far_away(5)

1 Answer

James Reinhold
James Reinhold
12,361 Points
James Reinhold
James Reinhold
12,361 Points

You are almost there

import datetime

def far_away(time):
    return time + datetime.datetime.now()
Sky Mouser
Sky Mouser
2,874 Points

Can someone explain how that works? What is time? The prompt specifically asks for a timedelta, which I thought was expressed as datetime.timedelta(). Your listed function worked in the Treehouse exercise, but when I try to use that function in an IDE it doesn't work.