my dob code wont recognize days above 12 without triggering my input error text-CodePudding

my first code i have written whilst learning, and have become stuck on one issue.

    NAME=str(input("Enter your name: "))
    print ("hello",NAME)

    from datetime import *


    today = date.today()
    print("Today: "    today.strftime('%A %d, %b %Y'))
    good_value = False
    value = ""

    while good_value == False:
        value = input("Insert Date in format dd/mm/yyyy: ")

        try:
            datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y')
            good_value = True

        except ValueError:
            print("Error: Date format invalid.")


    thisYear = today.year
    dob_data = value.split("/")
    dobDay = int(dob_data[0])
    dobMonth = int(dob_data[1])
    ÁdobYear = int(dob_data[2])
    dob = date(thisYear,dobMonth,dobDay)

    if today == date(thisYear,dobMonth,dobDay):
            print ("happy bithday", NAME)
    else:
            print ("its not your birthday, sucks to be you")

when i run the code it will work perfectly unless i type the date being over the 12th, so not breaking the error loop and obviously limiting the dates that can be put into the finished product.

CodePudding user response：

Here

value = input("Insert Date in format dd/mm/yyyy: ")

you are informing user that format should be DD/MM/YYYY, but here

datetime.strptime(value, '%m/%d/%Y')

you are expecting MM/DD/YYYY. In order to repair this replace former using

value = input("Insert Date in format mm/dd/yyyy: ")

and

dobDay = int(dob_data[0])
dobMonth = int(dob_data[1])

using

dobDay = int(dob_data[1])
dobMonth = int(dob_data[0])

Observe that this did worked for values equal or less than 12 as there are 12 months