Python error: TypeError: expected string or buffer

[chris0147]

Hi all,

I am sorry for making another post 3 times in a week, but I am almost complete my project. I have converted from time.struct_time to datetime object. Now I would like to convert it back to time.struct_time object after I have added to the next day date.

When I try this:

    half_hour_date = '23/02/2018 23:00PM'
    epg_time_1 = time.strptime(half_hour_date, '%d/%m/%Y %I:%M%p')
    
    #convert from time_struct_time object to datetime
    date_format = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(epg_time_1))
    half_hour = date_format + datetime.timedelta(days = self.program_day)
    
    #convert from datetime to time_struct_time object
    epg_time_1 = time.strptime(half_hour, '%d/%m/%Y %I:%M%p')

It give me an error: TypeError: expected string or buffer

The error are highlight on this line:

epg_time_1 = time.strptime(half_hour, '%d/%m/%Y %I:%M%p')

Here is the datetime object for half_hour:

2018-02-23 23:00:00

I don't have a clue what to do as I don't know how to fix it. What I am trying to do is to get the day, month, year, 12 hours time, minutes with PM to make it to show like "23/02/2018 23:00PM" from variable called half_hour

Can you please help me with how we can solve the error to allow me to convert it back to time.struct_time object?

Thanks in advance

[Larz60+]

You should look at that link I gave you before: https://pymotw.com/3/datetime/
He does all sorts of date manipulations