pset3 q4 code!!

Author: rohanrdy

outdated/outdated.py

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+month = [
+    "January",
+    "February",
+    "March",
+    "April",
+    "May",
+    "June",
+    "July",
+    "August",
+    "September",
+    "October",
+    "November",
+    "December"
+]
+
+while True:
+    date = input("Date: ").strip()
+    try:
+        m, d, y = date.split('/')
+        m = int(m) # which means that if 'm' is a string it will produce ValueError
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        if int(d)<32 and m < 13:
+            print(f"{y.zfill(4)}-{m:02}-{d.zfill(2)}", end="")
+            break
+
+    try:
+        temp1, y = date.split(', ')
+        m, d = temp1.split()
+        m = str((month.index(m))+1) #if 'm' is not in the list "month" then it will producde a KeyError
+    except (ValueError, KeyError):
+        pass
+    else:
+        if int(d) < 32 and int(m) < 13:
+            print(f"{y.rjust(4, '0')}-{m.rjust(2, '0')}-{d.rjust(2, '0')}", end="")
+            # we either use (only for str) rjust(2, '0') or .zfill(2) OR (for int and for str will pad 0's to the right not left) f"{example:02}"
+            break
+
+
+
+
+# i know i can tidy it up further but keeping a single try/exception/else but i already spent 5 hours on this question and finally figured out the October/9/1701 testcase error by converting str to int to get ValueError exception and i am out of patience