Help with DateTimeProperty datastore stuff

[Sam G]

Hello (again),

I'm a bit mystified about the db.DateTimeProperty. In the Datastore
API's Types and Properties documentation, it lists the Python object
type as datetime.datetime.

However, when I try to convert this datetime.datetime object to a
string, I get a "argument must be 9-item sequence, not
datetime.datetime" error.

Here's the code:

import time
...
message.timestamp = time.strftime("%I:%M %p", message.created)


The variable "message.created" is a DateTimeProperty that is retrieved
from the datastore.

Is there an easier way (or one that works) for converting a
DateTimeProperty to something like "11:34 AM"?

[Alexander Kojevnikov]

Try this:

message.timestamp = message.created.strftime("%I:%M %p")

You are confusing time.strftime() with datetime.datetime.strftime()

[Sam G]

Worked like a charm.

Thanks again, Alexander.

On Sep 20, 11:02 pm, Alexander Kojevnikov <alexan...@kojevnikov.com>
wrote: