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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Time Tango

Posted by Jamison Imhoff
Jamison Imhoff
12,460 Points

Datetime Code Challenge Help!

I tried to use the python doc to help pass this challenge , but either I am not running it correctly or am using the wrong thing. ( https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.combine )

I guess I am not quite understanding what the Challenge is wanting me to do...

help?

combo.py 
import datetime

def time_tango(date, time):
  return datetime.combine(date, time)
Jamison Imhoff
Jamison Imhoff
12,460 Points

Kenneth Love ?

2 Answers

Tree Casiano
Tree Casiano
16,436 Points
Tree Casiano
Tree Casiano
16,436 Points

You are very close. This may seem strange, but you need to include datetime twice in your return statement, like so: return datetime.datetime.combine(date, time)

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Yeah, the datetime module has a datetime class inside of it that you need to use. It's weird to type datetime.datetime but you'll a) use this all the time in production code; and b) see this pattern in many other modules, too.

Also, make sure you're always using the docs for Python 3. Your link up there goes to Python 2.