TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'datetime.timedelta'

I have a method which returns the date as "August 12, 2022" how can change that to datetime to concatenate with datetime.timedelta(days = 10)

def date_return():
    return date


date_return() + datetime.timedelta(days=10) 

throws TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: ‘str’ and ‘datetime.timedelta’

>Solution :

You need to convert the string into a datetime object. Python doesn’t know any information about the date since it is a string.

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('August 12, 2022', '%B %d, %Y')
datetime.datetime(2022, 8, 12, 0, 0)
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('August 12, 2022', '%B %d, %Y') + datetime.timedelta(days=10)
datetime.datetime(2022, 8, 22, 0, 0)

datetime string format codes for your date:

%B  Full month name.                            January, February,...
%d  Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal.  01, 02, ..., 31
%Y  Year with century as a decimal number.      2013, 2019 etc.

date_return() returns a string so you can just use it in place of the hardcoded string above:

datetime.datetime.strptime(date_return(), '%B %d, %Y') + datetime.timedelta(days=10)