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Start your free trialBill Leddy
2,720 Pointscombo.py - what are the parameters?
I assumed the time and date parameters are time and date objects. I used the date time.combine method but no joy.
Also tried them as datetime objects, but that didn't work either.
from datetime import datetime, time, date
def time_tango(theDate, theTime):
return datetime.combine(date(theDate.year,theDate.month,theDate.day),
time(theTime.hour,theTime.minute,theTime.second,theTime.microsecond))
4 Answers
Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 PointsHi Bill,
The issue seems to be that the challenge doesn't want you to bring date, time, datetime into the namespace. So instead of:
from datetime import datetime, date, time
Try just:
import datetime
Then prefixing each of your references to datetime classes with datetime.
I did this with your code and was able to pass the challenge.
Cheers
Alex
Aldo Rivadeneira
3,241 PointsHi! Im trying to understand this exercise, because i was trying to do something like this.
def combine_time(dt, ht):
format_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(dt, "%d/%m/%Y")
format_hour = datetime.datetime.strptime(ht, "%H:%M")
full_date_obj = datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.date(format_date), datetime.time(format_hour))
return full_date_obj
Thanks in advance
Bill Leddy
2,720 PointsTruth be told I found this one confusing because I didn’t fully understand the nature of the inputs or the goal of the output.
I fudged it by constructing the output using strptime to simply extract the elements I wanted from the inputs to create a new datetime object. I doubt that is what he had in mind but it passed.
Sorry, I no longer have the code I used.
Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 PointsHi Aldo,
You don't need to use strptime. You are given a date object and a time object as inputs to your function. You can use combine on them directly to create a datetime object.
Cheers
Alex
Lihua Yao
4,218 Pointsbut seems like it didn't say the input will be a time object and a date object. I tried to use combine directly, but still get error, and didn't say which kind of error it is. Kenneth Love
Lihua Yao
4,218 PointsI'm trying to understand this exercise too.
import datetime
def time_tango(date1, time1):
return datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.date(date1), datetime.time(time1))
But I don't know why it just returns "Bummer: Try again!"
Bill Leddy
2,720 PointsBill Leddy
2,720 PointsThanks Alex!