Date data types | Python for Beginners [15 of 44]

As you might expect, you sometimes need to figure out when something will happen. See how Python supports dates

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[walterwhite]

If you use the "f-string" formatting the other guy mentioned, you don't need to change integers to strings. For example, 'Yesterday was: ' + str(yesterday) becomes just f'Yesterday was {yesterday}'

[davidantoniofajardoponce]

Excellent explanation!!! What a pitty it wasn´t before the homework!!!

[aaronxiang]

Great tip here: just ditch the "+" plus sign and start to use comma which can avoid the string and integer drama. The plus sign has double meanings: addition in math and go together in space and this is super confusing for Python because Python doesn't know whether you want it to just juxtapose the two string/integer or you want to add them together as two numbers. But if you simply use a comma, well, what else can a comma mean? It only has one meaning: juxtapose the two elements side by side.

[HECTORARTUROA]

0:01 Importing date functions from a library.
4:00 Portions.
7:00 Errors.

[ashnabwad]

BTW striptime '%d/%m/%Y' doesnt work for me somehow. Only %d is highlighted in blue. i might have to look for the documentation on that function.

[damirko]

Great class and great material covered

[craigwarren]

Great job, clear explanations and a good pace. Thank you Microsoft.

[ImranKhan-osdd]

What a coincidence that I am learning this on 1st of March, and yesterday was 29th Feb of a Leap Year !!!

[reazulislam]

import datetime ???
without it command is not running in vsc .


import datetime
current_date = datetime.datetime.now()
print ('today is :' + str (current_date))

[shyamtripathi]

Please help me
I'm totally new to programming learning python as my first language

I always get this error:
ImportError: cannot import name 'datetime' from partially initialized module 'datetime' (most likely due to a circular import)

It runs fine when I debug and then run it on VScode but debugging shows no errors

[donferisi]

in the example date of your birthday: " birthday=date.strptime(current_date, "%d/%m/%y") " If the year we want to introduce is 1919 Phyton interprets it as 2019, why?

[andreiarg]

I'd suggest taking some notes on this lesson and playing around with the datetime function a little to understand it properly since it can be a bit mind numbing if you just gloss over the video and don't take the time to fully understand it.

[thepun]

i get an error when i type it exactly like that:
raise ValueError("time data %r does not match format %r" %
line 568 in strptime_datetime
line 349 in strptime
'03/22/85' does not match format '%m/%d/y'

[swachcharitharaghunathan]

May I know, why are you using upper case of Y int the assignment of year. When I used lower case it stopped with error

[mohamedesam]

Hi, i had an error with a highlighted %d . the code won't run

[vdpeer]

L =float(input('Amount borrowed '))
i =float(input('Interest per annum '))
n =float(input('Years to payoff '))
print(type(n))
print (n)
M = L(i(1 + i)n)/((1 + i)n-1)
Why am I getting 'unknown token' regarding the 'n' variable in the last line?

[khushbookhairkar]

what can we refer after completion of this course? i want to go for advanced course now.

[rj]

microsoft should respond to the problems that coders have in the comments section!

[meirlieberman]

The year portion, on line 2, asks for all 4 numbers (e.g 2019 instead of 19).
Line 3 asks for 2 numbers (%Y).
when I tried to run it, while putting in all four numbers, the program crashed and said it had 2 remaining number.
It worked when I put 2 numbers in for the year.

[qiamudien]

I have question on line: current_date = datetime.now() Why i have to add
.now() on datetime
and
whats the reason for having: ()