I have a python method which accepts a date input as a string.
How do I add a validation to make sure the date string being passed to the method is in the ffg. format:
'YYYY-MM-DD'
if it's not, method should raise some sort of error
解决方案>>> import datetime
>>> def validate(date_text):
try:
datetime.datetime.strptime(date_text, '%Y-%m-%d')
except ValueError:
raise ValueError("Incorrect data format, should be YYYY-MM-DD")
>>> validate('2003-12-23')
>>> validate('2003-12-32')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
validate('2003-12-32')
File "", line 5, in validate
raise ValueError("Incorrect data format, should be YYYY-MM-DD")
ValueError: Incorrect data format, should be YYYY-MM-DD