how to test for pywintypes.datetime type with isinstance?

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I am pulling a range from excel including dates. If I check for types this is what I get:

type(q)
Out[45]: 
pywintypes.datetime
q
Out[46]: 
pywintypes.datetime(2009, 10, 26, 0, 0, tzinfo=TimeZoneInfo('GMT Standard Time', True))

I am doing a check on it using isinstance(q, pywintypes.datetime) but it doesnt work.

isinstance(q, pywintypes.datetime)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:Anaconda2envspy36libsite-packagesIPythoncoreinteractiveshell.py", line 2881, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-47-916010697275>", line 1, in <module>
    isinstance(q, pywintypes.datetime)
AttributeError: module 'pywintypes' has no attribute 'datetime'

any idea how to test via isinstance to check if its a pywintypes object?

thanks

Asked By: Steven G

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Answer 1

Please try the following code:

import datetime

isinstance(q, datetime.datetime)

Answered By: TimothyW

Answer 2

looks like this works:

from pywintypes import TimeType

if type(date) is TimeType:
    print('date!')

Answered By: Steven G

Answer 3

The code snippet below worked for me. I couldn’t get this "from pywintypes import TimeType" to work because I’m also using win32api which seems to interfere with TimeType.

import pywintypes
print(type(q) is pywintypes.TimeType)

Answered By: JSotelo

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