I'm getting errors with this function:

def compare_dates(date1: str, date2: str) -> str:
    date1_obj = datetime.strptime(date1, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
    date2_obj = datetime.strptime(date2, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
    return date1 if date1_obj > date2_obj else date2

Because the input sometimes includes microseconds. Is there a clearer way of dealing with this than what I've done?

def compare_dates(date1: str, date2: str) -> str:
    date_format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
    date1_obj = datetime.strptime(date1.split(".")[0], date_format)
    date2_obj = datetime.strptime(date2.split(".")[0], date_format)
    date1_obj = date1_obj.replace(microsecond=0)
    date2_obj = date2_obj.replace(microsecond=0)
    return date1 if date1_obj > date2_obj else date2

To be clear, this was released on 11 July 2023.

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I've tried using pythorhead

search_results = lemmy.search(post_url)

but I get

AttributeError: 'Lemmy' object has no attribute 'search'

I've also tried requesting it myself but I don't get any results from the API even when I get it when searching for the same URL from the web interface.

@backoff.on_exception(
    backoff.expo,
    requests.exceptions.RequestException,
    max_time=MAX_BACKOFF_TIME,
)
def search(instance: str, url: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
    api = f"https://{instance}/api/v3/search"
    query = f"?q={url}"
    response = requests.get(api + query)

    if response.status_code == 200:
        res: Dict[str, Any] = response.json()
        return res
    else:
        return {}

This makes it look more difficult than what I expected. https://programming.dev/comment/50809

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