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Guy-Francis Kono
9,289 PointsIs this Right?
I tried combining a date and time, as I was asked by the prompt, but the challenge wouldn't accept my code.
However, when I run it in the console, assigning date to one variable and time to another, combine them and use datetime.datetime.strptime to format it to a datetime object, it succeeds.
What am I doing wrong?
import datetime
current_date = '2015-07-08 '
current_time = '12:19'
def time_tango(current_date, current_time):
current_date_time = current_date + current_time
return datetime.datetime.strptime(current_date_time, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
2 Answers
Russell Sawyer
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 15,705 PointsThe two parameters date and time are not strings, they are date and time objects. The package datetime actually has a method called combine which is used when we want to combine a date object with a time object (into a datetime object). Return the two objects combined. Here is the link to the documentation.
https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.combine
import datetime
def time_tango(date, time):
return datetime.datetime.combine(date, time)
Guy-Francis Kono
9,289 PointsRight! Thank you Russell! I forgot that Kenneth had shown us the combine method at work.