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

Posted by Avery Uslaner
Avery Uslaner
15,099 Points

Bummer! module 'datetime' has no attribute 'strptime'???

I'm highly confuzzled as to why this doesn't work.

Edit: And apparently it didn't attach my code. One sec...

Edit2: My code:

## 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(time):
  return time.strftime('%d %B %Y')

def from_string(date, formatting):
  dt = datetime.strptime(date, formatting)
  return dt

From the docs:

>>> # Using datetime.strptime()
>>> dt = datetime.strptime("21/11/06 16:30", "%d/%m/%y %H:%M")
>>> dt
datetime.datetime(2006, 11, 21, 16, 30)

1 Answer

Evan Demaris
Evan Demaris
64,262 Points

You are extremely close on this one; you're missing a 'datetime'.

Also, you can just return the code, you don't need to assign a variable to return.

def from_string(date, formatting):
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(date, formatting)