I have a script with the following import:

from datetime import datetime

and a piece of code where I call:

datetime.fromisoformat(duedate)

Sadly, when I run the script with an instance of Python 3.6, the console returns the following error:

AttributeError: type object 'datetime.datetime' has no attribute 'fromisoformat'

I tried to run it from two instances of anaconda (3.7 and 3.8) and it works nice and smooth. I supposed there was an import problem so I tried to copy datetime.py from anaconda/Lib to the script directory, with no success.

The datetime.py clearly contains the class datetime and the method fromisoformat but still it seems unlinked. I even tried to explicitly link the datetime.py file, with the same error:

parent_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
vendor_dir = os.path.join(parent_dir, 'libs')
sys.path.append(vendor_dir+os.path.sep+"datetime.py")

Can you help me? My ideas are over...

The issue here is actually that fromisoformat is not available in Python versions older than 3.7, you can see that clearly stated in the documenation here.

Return a date corresponding to a date_string given in the format YYYY-MM-DD:
>>>

>>> from datetime import date
>>> date.fromisoformat('2019-12-04')
datetime.date(2019, 12, 4)

This is the inverse of date.isoformat(). It only supports the format YYYY-MM-DD.

New in version 3.7.