Question

Sometimes self.start is unicode:

eg.

>>>self.start u'07:30:00' 

Which makes datetime.combine complain

start = datetime.combine(self.job_record.date, self.start) 

How does one:

1. Test for unicode?
2. Convert from u’07:30:00′ to datetime.time?

Answer 1

datetime.combine is complaining because it expects the second argument to be a datetime.time instance, not a string (or unicode string).

There are a few ways to convert your string to a datetime.time instance. One way would be to use datetime.strptime:

t = datetime.strptime(self.start, '%H:%M:%S').time() start = datetime.combine(self.job_record.date, t)