Question

Can't get the following python script to work with the date.
import time

from datetime import date

from sys import argv

script = argv

filename = raw_input("filename?> ")

today = date.today()

print "Let's have some fun with %s." % script

def to_do(day):

s1 = "Brushed your teeth?> "

s2 = "Applied acne medication?> "

s3 = "Put ear lotion on?> "

s4 = "Wrote double entry notes for huck finn?> "

s5 = "Shot videos?> "

l1 = raw_input(s1)

l2 =raw_input(s2)

l3 = raw_input(s3)

Answer 1

l4 = raw_input(s4)

l5 = raw_input(s5)

bar = "\n"

txt= open(filename, 'a')

format = l1, bar, l2, bar, l3, bar, l4, bar, l5, bar

txt.seek(0,2)

txt.writelines(format)

txt.write(bar)

txt.write(day)

txt.close()

Answer 2

error = Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\luis\Dropbox\programming\python\age1.py", line 27, in <module>
to_do(today)
File "C:\luis\Dropbox\programming\python\age1.py", line 25, in to_do
txt.write(day)
TypeError: must be string or read-only character buffer, not datetime.date

Answer 3

try adding string(day) before you call txt.write(day) to cast the date to a string. I think that write must only be able to take string types. http://stackoverflow.com/ is better for programming questions imho

Answer 4

It would help to see the code that calls to_do( day )

I don't see any code to convert the variable today to a string. I'm not familiar with the datetime object, but I'd bet it has a method to return a string of today's date.