NOTE This file was generated by Descript 1 00:00:00,083 --> 00:00:01,643 Hi guys, and welcome back. 2 00:00:01,733 --> 00:00:05,693 So far the entries have been formatted incorrectly on our website. 3 00:00:05,693 --> 00:00:09,113 So in this video, let's learn how we can format them in a different 4 00:00:09,113 --> 00:00:11,093 way using our Python code. 5 00:00:11,393 --> 00:00:12,293 So let's get to it. 6 00:00:13,054 --> 00:00:15,934 Let's begin by reformatting these dates. 7 00:00:15,994 --> 00:00:20,794 Note that in our entries list, we're storing strings that's because we 8 00:00:20,794 --> 00:00:24,334 are getting the current dates when we create an entry and we're formatting 9 00:00:24,334 --> 00:00:26,464 it as a string using this format. 10 00:00:26,862 --> 00:00:30,282 What we want to do before we show the entries in our template is 11 00:00:30,282 --> 00:00:34,632 we want to make sure this date matches the format that we wanted. 12 00:00:35,153 --> 00:00:37,402 So we do entries with dates. 13 00:00:37,738 --> 00:00:40,018 Is going to be equal to this list. 14 00:00:40,618 --> 00:00:44,978 And in the list, we're going to have entry zero, entry one, 15 00:00:45,248 --> 00:00:46,928 which is the date in this format. 16 00:00:47,228 --> 00:00:52,028 And we're also going to have the new date format that we want for our entries. 17 00:00:52,478 --> 00:00:55,568 The reason why we want the date in two different formats will 18 00:00:55,568 --> 00:00:57,008 become clear in just a moment. 19 00:00:57,526 --> 00:00:59,866 How do we reformat the date? 20 00:00:59,896 --> 00:01:03,946 The first thing we have to do is we have to tell Python to understand 21 00:01:03,976 --> 00:01:07,556 this date so that it can then reformat it into something else. 22 00:01:08,036 --> 00:01:13,746 So we'll do datetime.datetime.strptime and we would pass in entry one. 23 00:01:14,273 --> 00:01:19,103 And then in here, we're going to pass in the format of the string at the moment. 24 00:01:19,103 --> 00:01:22,193 So that's %Y %m %d. 25 00:01:22,626 --> 00:01:24,396 What this is going to do is it's going to tell Python. 26 00:01:24,456 --> 00:01:27,996 Okay, this is the dates that we're talking about, and it's going to understand 27 00:01:27,996 --> 00:01:30,516 it as a date and not as a string. 28 00:01:30,976 --> 00:01:32,836 I'm just going to reformat this a little bit better. 29 00:01:32,896 --> 00:01:33,946 So you guys can see. 30 00:01:34,450 --> 00:01:42,670 We can then go ahead and do strftime and format it as %b %d. 31 00:01:43,030 --> 00:01:48,940 And this is going to reformat it as October 10, for example, or November 11. 32 00:01:49,490 --> 00:01:53,570 Of course we want to do this for every entry in the entries list. 33 00:01:53,570 --> 00:01:56,330 So we'll do for entry in entries. 34 00:01:56,820 --> 00:01:57,420 Just like that. 35 00:01:57,660 --> 00:02:00,840 And now we're going to pass in the entries with date in here. 36 00:02:01,050 --> 00:02:03,000 Keeping entries as it is. 37 00:02:03,519 --> 00:02:07,089 Let's save that and go over to the template because now instead of entry 38 00:02:07,089 --> 00:02:09,959 one here, we want to display entry two. 39 00:02:10,359 --> 00:02:15,159 That is the properly formatted date string, but we still want to use 40 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:19,299 entry one in here for the datetime attributes of the time element. 41 00:02:19,499 --> 00:02:21,779 So we will do entry one. 42 00:02:22,290 --> 00:02:25,770 This is going to make sure that any accessibility software will still 43 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:27,750 understand this as being the correct date. 44 00:02:28,050 --> 00:02:32,760 While showing a nicer way of displaying the date in text. 45 00:02:33,283 --> 00:02:35,473 Let's run this and see what happens. 46 00:02:35,979 --> 00:02:38,319 And you can see now we get November 13th. 47 00:02:38,834 --> 00:02:44,317 If we write something a little bit longer, like this one, we'll get a truncated title 48 00:02:44,347 --> 00:02:46,807 at the top with the ellipsis at the end. 49 00:02:46,957 --> 00:02:49,357 That's because we've got true there in our filter. 50 00:02:49,807 --> 00:02:51,607 And then we've got the complete text at the bottom. 51 00:02:52,233 --> 00:02:52,443 All right. 52 00:02:52,443 --> 00:02:56,403 So I think we've solved pretty much every problem that we need so far. 53 00:02:56,433 --> 00:02:59,583 The next step is to start using MongoDB. 54 00:03:00,705 --> 00:03:02,145 Thank you guys for joining me in this video. 55 00:03:02,205 --> 00:03:04,335 I hope you've enjoyed it and you've learned something. 56 00:03:04,485 --> 00:03:06,075 So I'll see you in the next one.