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Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast

Reputation: 1190

getting 2 different date input from user

I am trying to get user input for 2 different dates which i will pass on to another function. 

def twodifferentdates():
    print("Data between 2 different dates")
    start_date = datetime.strptime(input('Enter Start Date in m/d/y format'), '%m&d&Y')
    end_date = datetime.strptime(input('Enter end date in m/d/y format'), '%m&d&Y')
    print(start_date)

twodifferentdates()

I have tried a lot of different ways to enter the dates but i keep getting

ValueError: time data '01/11/1987' does not match format '%m&d&Y'

I have used the same code which was discussed in: how do I take input in the date time format?

Any help here would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 286

Answers (3)

Paul Dascalu
Paul Dascalu

Reputation: 1

I'm not very experienced with the datetime module, but the error seems to be the way you're taking input. You should be taking it like this:

start_date = datetime.strptime(input('Enter Start Date in m/d/y format'), '%m &d &Y')

or

start_date = datetime.strptime(input('Enter Start Date in m/d/y format'), '%m/&d/&Y')

Upvotes: -1

Green Cloak Guy
Green Cloak Guy

Reputation: 24691

datetime.strptime() requires you to specify the format, on a character-by-character basis, of the date you want to input. For the string '01/11/1987' you'd do

    datetime.strptime(..., '%m/%d/%Y')

where %m is "two-digit month", %d is "two-digit day" and %Y is "four-digit year" (as opposed to two-digit year %y. These values are separated by slashes.

See also the datetime documentation which describes how to use strptime and strftime.

Upvotes: 0

Pawel Uchida-Psztyc
Pawel Uchida-Psztyc

Reputation: 3838

Replace %m&d&Y with %m/%d/%Y as described in the referenced post.

Upvotes: 3

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