dtpy

Question 1

naive datetimes do not know

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what timezone they are in

Question 2

aware datetimes know

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what timezone you are in

Question 3

to create a naive date, type

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datetime.date(2000, 12, 30)

Question 4

you should not use a local time zone in apps for anything except

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converting it to display for users.

Question 5

datetime.datetime.now(), datetime.time.now(), datetime.date.now() return the time/date in

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my local timezone from computer, but in a naive form.

Question 6

to return the day of week in 0-6 format, type

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my_datetime.weekday()

Question 7

a timedelta represents

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the amount of time between 2 dates or times

Question 8

to create a timedelta of 7 days type

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datetime.timedelta(days=7)

Question 9

to print out what the date will be in 7 days, type

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datetime.date().today() + datetime.timedelta(days=7)

Question 10

if you subtract a date or time from a date or time you get a

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timedelta

note: cannot add

Question 11

to return the number of seconds of a timedelta, type

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my_time_delta.total_seconds()

Question 12

the parameters to datetime.time() are

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hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds.

Question 13

to get the current datetime in utc

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datetime. datetime.now(tz= pytz.UTC)

note: Yes, this gets the time local to there, not my local timeand then just setting UTC as timezone.

Question 14

to make an aware datetime, type

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datetime.datetime(2016,10,20, 20, 10, 20000, tzinfo = pytz.UTC)

Question 15

to convert a timezone aware datetime to the concurrent local time in a different timezone, type

Like at this time here, whats the local time there?

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my_datetime.astimezone(pytz.timezone(‘TIMEZONE/STRING’))

Question 16

To know when a datetime is timezone aware, you can

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return it and see tzinfo
datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 25, 4, 15, 24, 686585, tzinfo=)

or print it and see the plus
2019-10-20 11-25-20.304943+08:00

Question 17

an unaware datetime is effectively just

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the numbers that make up all the date and time, but they don’t know what timezone they are in.

If you add a timezone, you get to know the time difference a datetime that knows what timezone it is in, and one that doesnt. If it is in a different timezone, it can account for the timezone difference to know the actually difference. Since there 6pm ET and 6pm PT look the same in numbers, but 6pm PT will happen in the future after 6pm ET.

Question 18

to make a naive datetime into a timezone aware datetime, type

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from pytz import timezone

unaware_datetime = datetime.datetime.now()

time_zone = timezone(‘TIMEZONE/STRING’)

aware_datetime = time_zone.localize(unaware_datetime)

Question 19

to convert a datetime to a string, type

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my_datetime.strftime(‘%b %d %Y’)

returnstringf -> RSF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirjjyP2qcQ

Question 20

to convert a string to a datetime, type

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datetime.datetime.strptime(“string”, “%b %d %Y”)

returndatetimep -> RDP

Question 21

to convert a timezone aware datetime into a naive datetime, type

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aware_datetime.replace(tzinfo=None)

Question 22

to get the timedelta between to times, you need to

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put those times into a datetime with the same date first

the bigger later/bigger date must come first to subtract

Question 23

to convert a naive datetime to a timezone aware datetime using the timezone in django’s settings, type

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from django.utils.timezone import make_aware

make_aware(naive_datetime)

Question 24

auto_now_add is

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timezone aware

Question 25

timedeltas can be

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negative

Question 26

to get a datetime representing the monday in a given week, type

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datetime.datetime.strptime(‘2000-07-3’, ‘%Y-%W-%w’)

%W = week number zero padded
%w = day of week 0-6

Question 27

To replace just the time in a datetime, type

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datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo= pytz.UTC, hour= 3, minute= 0, second= 0)

Question 28

when I make pivot tables in pandas, I need to always catch

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coonditions where there is no data, so I need to render an empty dataframe

Question 29

general dango_pandas rules

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after you read_frame, create a new df filtering for just the columns need so model changes don’t later change the df
To make a pivot table with cell links, include all the links as later columns of the pivot table, and then in template loop using iterrows.
Make the df look exactly how you want it to be displayed, dont rely on template a lot, but template filters are ok.
Account for the possibility that your data will be empty, make sure table still populates
keep in the template to see the real data

Question 30

when filtering for a particular date range in django make sure to use

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__gte and __lte instead of just gt or lt, because you need to include the date that set the range.

Question 31

to get the first monday of every week, type

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def get_monday(year, week):
        d = datetime.date(year,1,1)
        if(d.weekday()>3):
            d = d+datetime.timedelta(7-d.weekday())
        else:
            d = d - datetime.timedelta(d.weekday())
        dlt = datetime.timedelta(days = (week-1)*7)
        return d + dlt

Question 32

datetime.date.isocalendar() returns

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a tuple containing year, weeknumber and weekday

Question 33

to get the current datetime in a chosen timezone, type

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datetime. datetime.now(pytz.timezone(‘US/Eastern’))

note: this is tz aware