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Dat Ngo
1,309 PointsChallenge Task 3
What's wrong with my code
import datetime
birthdays = [
datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 29),
datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 9),
datetime.datetime(1978, 5, 16),
datetime.datetime(1981, 8, 15),
datetime.datetime(2001, 7, 4),
datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 30)
]
today = datetime.datetime.today()
def is_over_13(dt):
delta = today - dt
return delta.days >= 4745
def date_string(dt):
return dt.strftime("%B %d")
birth_dates = map(date_string, filter(is_over_13, birthdays))
2 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsIt is looking more like an international date time round off with the sample data 9 Aug 2006 date being very close to exactly 13 years old.
Update: It is a bug in the checker that has a hard coded expected value. As the second date moved passed 13 years ago from today's date the results of the map/filter will change.
A temporary work-around would be to change the data so that the second date is at least 4 days later than date you run the challenge.:
birthdays = [
datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 29),
# change line below to
datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 13), # changed from (2006, 8, 9)
datetime.datetime(1978, 5, 16),
datetime.datetime(1981, 8, 15),
datetime.datetime(2001, 7, 4),
datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 30)
]
With this change, your code will pass the challenge!!
Richard A
Courses Plus Student 10,121 PointsHi Chris Freeman , just to confirm your suspicions, I do believe this was a bug in the checker. I had this problem las week too. Going back to this challenge, I tried your solution and unfortunately, it didn't work. I did however change other values in the birthdays list to random values and only then did I finally pass this challenge.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsUnfortunately, my workaround fix "expired" on 9 Aug 2019, since today continuously moves. :-) A bug report has been filed.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsThere may be a bug in the checker due to international local time verses the challenge checkers local time. I noticed that one of the dates in the sample data is 9 Aug 2006 which is exactly 13 years ago today! Please try your code tomorrow to see if it still works as is. If so, I'll file a bug report. Thanks for your patients!