I have a date stored in a text file in this format "19 May 2021"
, I want to compare this date to the today’s date to see if we have reached this date or not (> / <) comparisons. I was instructed to first convert this string date to a date object, I am failing to do so.
For overdue_tasks in task_overview:
# Iterating through the file from datetime import date as dt overdue_tasks = overdue_tasks.split(", ") dates = overdue_tasks[4] # This date is found in this index date_obj = dt.strptime(dates, "%d %b %Y") print(date_obj) # Trying to see if the date did convert
This is the error I get:
line 27, in <module> date_obj = dt.strptime(dates, "%m %d %y") AttributeError: type object 'datetime.date' has no attribute 'strptime'
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Answer
The strptime()
method is from datetime.datetime
, not datetime.time
. See the documentation for datetime.datetime.strptime()
.
So you’ll simply need to change
from datetime import date as dt
to
from datetime import datetime as dt