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Date format issue
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Your error ValueError: time data '' show that your read of log_file return an empty string.
date = f.read() # return ''
Make the same error.
>>> date = ''
>>> datetime.strptime(date, "%Y-%m-%d")
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\python37\lib\_strptime.py", line 577, in _strptime_datetime tt, fraction, gmtoff_fraction = _strptime(data_string, format) File "C:\python37\lib\_strptime.py", line 359, in _strptime (data_string, format)) ValueError: time data '' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d'
With a date it work.
>>> date = '2019-03-11'
>>> datetime.strptime(date, "%Y-%m-%d")
datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 11, 0, 0)
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Messages In This Thread
Date format issue - by the_dude - Jun-04-2019, 03:05 AM
RE: Date format issue - by Gribouillis - Jun-04-2019, 04:42 AM
RE: Date format issue - by buran - Jun-04-2019, 04:54 AM
RE: Date format issue - by perfringo - Jun-04-2019, 06:27 AM
RE: Date format issue - by the_dude - Jun-05-2019, 01:01 PM
RE: Date format issue - by buran - Jun-05-2019, 01:07 PM
RE: Date format issue - by Gribouillis - Jun-05-2019, 04:20 PM
RE: Date format issue - by the_dude - Jun-06-2019, 07:41 PM
RE: Date format issue - by snippsat - Jun-06-2019, 08:26 PM
RE: Date format issue - by buran - Jun-06-2019, 08:43 PM
RE: Date format issue - by the_dude - Jun-06-2019, 11:29 PM
RE: Date format issue - by snippsat - Jun-07-2019, 06:27 AM

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