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Hi.
So I get an error that says:
DataSource.Error: ADO.NET: Python script error.
<pi>ValueError: time data 'Microsoft.OleDb.Date' does not match format '%m/%d/%Y'
</pi>
when running the following portion of my python script in power query editor:
result = []
for value in dataset["elcn_contributiondate"]:
if (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y') >= pd.Timestamp(2018,7,1,12)) & (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y')<= datetime.datetime.now() - relativedelta(years=4)):
result.append('FY2018')
elif (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y') >= pd.Timestamp(2019,7,1,12)) & (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y')<= datetime.datetime.now() - relativedelta(years=3)):
result.append('FY2019')
elif (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y')>= pd.Timestamp(2020,7,1,12)) & (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y') <= datetime.datetime.now() - relativedelta(years=2)):
result.append('FY2020')
elif (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y') >= pd.Timestamp(2021,7,1,12)) & (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y') <= datetime.datetime.now() - relativedelta(years=1)):
result.append('FY2021')
elif (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y') >= pd.Timestamp(2022,7,1,12)) & (datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y') <= datetime.datetime.now()):
result.append('FY2022')
else:
result.append('no year')
dataset['FY'] = resultNo matter what other version of datetime I try it still errors out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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