Convert Date to ISO Format in Python

Introduction

In Python, dates can be represented in different formats. One of the most common formats is the ISO-8601 format, which represents dates and times in a standardized way. In this challenge, you will write a function that converts a date to its ISO-8601 representation.

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Date to ISO format

Write a function to_iso_date(d) that takes a datetime.datetime object as its argument and returns a string representing the date in ISO-8601 format. The function should use the datetime.datetime.isoformat() method to convert the date to its ISO-8601 representation.

from datetime import datetime

def to_iso_date(d):
  return d.isoformat()

from datetime import datetime

to_iso_date(datetime(2020, 10, 25)) ## 2020-10-25T00:00:00

Summary

In this challenge, you wrote a function that converts a date to its ISO-8601 representation. You learned how to use the datetime.datetime.isoformat() method to convert a datetime.datetime object to an ISO-8601 date.

Date to ISO format

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Date to ISO format

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