AttributeError: 'whenever.Date' object has no attribute 'strptime'

[metaperl]

My objective is is to take Date instance and render as MM/DD/YYYY but I get the error AttributeError: 'whenever.Date' object has no attribute 'strptime' with the following code:

from whenever import Date, days, Instant

_ = Date.today_in_system_tz()
print(_.strptime("%m/%d/%Y"))

[ariebovenberg]

Unfortunately, there's no strftime (or strptime) method on whenever.Date instances yet. Adding a strftime-like method is on the roadmap (#174).

For now, you can do:

d = Date.today_in_system_tz()
# note the formatting codes to ensure zero-padding
print(f"{d.month:0>2}/{d.day:0>2}/{d.year:0>4}")

alternatively, you can fall back on the standard library with:

Date.today_in_system_tz().py_date().strftime("%m/%d/%Y")

[ariebovenberg]

I'll be closing this issue, since the development of customized formatting can be tracked in #174