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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Dating Methods

Jeffrey Huther
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Jeffrey Huther
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 4,175 Points

Code Challenge: Time Tango: my code is not passing the challenge even though I can get it to work in PyCharm.

The following is the code I am using...What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance

import datetime

def time_tango( user_date, user_time):
    combine_time = datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.datetime.strptime(user_date,'%m-%d-%Y'),datetime.datetime.strptime(user_time,'%H:%M').time())

    return combine_time

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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With challenges, it's always best to "keep it simple".

Try a more minimal approach, perhaps something like this:

    combine_time = datetime.datetime.combine(user_date, user_time)
Jeffrey Huther
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Jeffrey Huther
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Thank you Steven,

I got it to work. and I understand why it was not working for me. I was assuming the user/programmer would be passing date and time as strings. but the challenge was not assuming that ...

Thank you again