strptime() does not convert string to datetime object in Python 3.6

Question

I am getting an exception when I run the following code which I can not explain:

import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime("2018-04-02", format = "%Y-%m-%d")

TypeError: strptime() takes no keyword arguments

Answer 1

Remove the format = keyword, the second argument is positional only:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime("2018-04-02", "%Y-%m-%d")
datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 2, 0, 0)