How can I define datetime in the following: because it keeps coming back with Error Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def calculate_seconds_lived(birthdate): ...     current_date = datetime.now() ...     time_lived = current_date - birthdate ...     return time_lived.total_seconds() ...  >>> calculate_seconds_lived(datetime(1997, 6, 25)) Traceback (most recent call last):   File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'datetime' is not defined

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How can I define datetime in the following: because it keeps coming back with Error

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def calculate_seconds_lived(birthdate):
...     current_date = datetime.now()
...     time_lived = current_date - birthdate
...     return time_lived.total_seconds()
... 
>>> calculate_seconds_lived(datetime(1997, 6, 25))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'datetime' is not defined

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The reason you are facing the error:

NameError: name 'datetime' is not defined

is because you have not imported the datetime library into your Python script.

 

The following statement needs to be added at the very first line of the script to import datetime library:

from datetime import datetime
 
 
The program provided in the next step contains the complete required Python code.
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