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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Let's Build a Timed Quiz App Harder Time Machine

harder time machine

Kept getting a "bummer" in the challenge so I tried in pyhon and it gave a syntaxError: keywords cant be an expression, but I don't know how to fix that..

time_machine.py
import datetime

starter = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 16, 29)

# Remember, you can't set "years" on a timedelta!
# Consider a year to be 365 days.

## Example
# time_machine(5, "minutes") => datetime(2015, 10, 21, 16, 34)sda

def time_machine(inte, stri):
    string = stri
    if string == "year":
        return starter + datetime.timedelta(vars()[string] = inte * 365)
    else:
        return starter + datetime.timedelta(vars()[string] = inte)

1 Answer

string is a keyword. You can not use the word "string".