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

Jeff Muday
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Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Posted by Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

No specification on time/date string format given in challenge.

Dates and Times challenge 'time-tango'

My code works in workspaces, but does not pass the code-challenge. What the heck did the designers intend for time/date strings we should accept?

My code tests fine in the YYYY-mm-dd and 24-hour HH:MM format.

Should this challenge should be re-written with more specifications or am I just an idiot?

import datetime

def time_tango(date,time):
    # assumes date format YYYY-MM-DD and time format 24-hour HH:MM
    timestr = "{} {}".format(date,time)
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(timestr, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')


# testing
date = '2017-01-01'
time = '15:30'

# Equivalent representation, datetime
this_datetime = datetime.datetime(2017,1,1,15,30)

if time_tango(date,time) == this_datetime:
    print ('time_tango PASS')
else:
    print ('time_tango FAIL')

1 Answer

Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

Thanks -- that saves a few keystrokes. I might simply returned a datetime.datetime built from the component parameters of the input.

That version looks more convoluted (as shown below).

return datetime.datetime(date.year, date.month, date.day, 
                                    time.hour, time.minute, time.second)