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Luiz Godoy
Luiz Godoy

Reputation: 63

Convert int to date

I'm trying to convert yyyy/mm/dd to dd/mm/yyyy, from integer inputs.

When i've changed the pattern inside the parethesis from datetime.date(year, month, day), to datetime.date(day, month, year), it returns an Value error.

def acc_expiration():
    year = int(input('YEAR: '))
    month = int(input('MONTH: '))
    day = int(input('DAY: '))
    exp_date = datetime.date(day, month, year)
    return exp_date

ValueError: day is out of range for month

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (2)

Vitor Falcão
Vitor Falcão

Reputation: 1049

From the documentation:

class datetime.date(year, month, day)

This means you need to put the arguments in the right position, doesn't matter how you want to print it later.

This should work:

def acc_expiration():
    year = int(input('YEAR: '))
    month = int(input('MONTH: '))
    day = int(input('DAY: '))
    exp_date = datetime.date(year, month, day)
    return exp_date

Now let's print it formatted in dd/mm/yyyy:

d = acc_expiration()
f = d.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
print(f) # prints it formatted dd/mm/yyyy

Your value error is because you are giving a year integer (integer bigger than 31) to the day argument, and for the year you are giving the day integer.

Upvotes: 1

Bill Sawyer
Bill Sawyer

Reputation: 31

You are confusing the object from its presentation.

Look at the Python docs for Datetime (here)

  1. The correct sequence for datetime.date is class datetime.datetime(year, month, day[, hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[, tzinfo]]]]])

  2. Once you have a datetime object, you can format the output of it in a variety of ways to suit your needs.

Does that help?

Upvotes: 0

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