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Python datetime quiz

Posted on September 1, 2010 by slacy

Without looking at the documentation (or running the code), describe the outputs of the following 4 function calls: from datetime import datetime datetime.datetime.now() datetime.datetime.today() datetime.datetime.now().date() datetime.datetime.today().date() Post your answers as a comment.

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summing datetime.timedelta objects in Python

Posted on February 9, 2010 by slacy

Argh! The following snippet is totally broken: import datetime times = [datetime.timedelta(hours=1), datetime.timedelta(minutes=30)] print sum(times) print min(times) print max(times) It raises “TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: ‘int’ and ‘datetime.timedelta’” The thing is, I want this function to be able … Continue reading →

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