String + datetime.strptime + datetime.strftime and back to string

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I am working on a project in which I need to use datetime, timedelta, strftime, and strptime.
To get this to work my imports look like this:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import datetime as dt

The code starts with taking in two string dates: ‘05/11/21’, ‘05/13/21’
It then uses datetime.strptime to convert these into datetime dates and generates a list of dates between them, it outputs this list:
date_list = [datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 11, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 12, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 13, 0, 0)]

Now I want to iterate through that list and turn the datetimes back into strings.

date_string = []
for d in date_list:
	date_string += datetime.strftime(d, '%m/%d/%y')
print(date_string)

I get this error:
AttributeError: type object 'datetime.datetime' has no attribute 'datetime'.

Please help, Thanks so much

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That’s correct, it has no method datetime (you can see this when you type help(datetime).

What you probably wanted was something like datetime(2021, 5, 11, 0) which produces a datetime.datetime object.

Documentation is useful for examples and reference: datetime — Basic date and time types — Python 3.9.6 documentation