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Kay Pengelly
5,985 Pointsstrptime from_string example
Hi there,
my from_string function does not work and I am unsure why. There is an error message that comes up that says "module 'datetime' does not have 'striptime' as an attribute".
Could someone please look at my from_string code and let me know what's happening?
Thanks!
## Examples
# to_string(datetime_object) => "24 September 2012"
# from_string("09/24/12 18:30", "%m/%d/%y %H:%M") => datetime
import datetime
def to_string(dt):
return dt.strftime("%d %B %Y")
def from_string(date_str, strf_str):
date_convert = datetime.strptime(date_str, strf_str)
return date_convert
1 Answer
Kay Pengelly
5,985 PointsHi all,
The reason the above code didn't work is because strptime is a classmethod of the datetime.datetime class, and it's not a function in the datetime module.
module | class | method
datetime.datetime.strptime(date, "%Y-%m-%d")
Therefore I needed to call the classmethod AND the module, like the below:
def from_string(date_str, strf_str):
date_convert = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, strf_str)
return date_convert