Accessing datetime attributes
Suppose you are analyzing the tech bubble crash of 2000. For the sake of reporting, you need to assign the year, month, and day values to variables.
Use the attributes of a datetime object to assign the correct values to these variables.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Python for Finance
Exercise instructions
- Assign the year of the crash to the variable
yr. - Assign the month of the crash to the variable
mth. - Assign the day of the crash to the variable
day.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# March 10, 2000 Tech Bubble Crash
tech_bubble = datetime(2000, 3, 10)
# Access the year
yr = tech_bubble.____
# Access the month
mth = tech_bubble.____
# Access the day
day = tech_bubble.____
print(f"Year: {yr}, Month: {mth}, Day: {day}")