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Person birthday property, error when no year
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I have a few contacts in my Contacts app that have birthdays with no year associated. This allows them to show up in the calendar even though I don't know the year.
When I try and access the birthday property on these contacts, I get the following error:
>> person.birthday Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t
Is there any way to handle this correctly?
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of this problem. I don't think there's a workaround, but I'll put this on my todo list.
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Try / Except is your friend...
for person in contacts.get_all_people(): try: birthday = person.birthday except ValueError: birthday = None print(person.full_name + ' has an invalid birthday.') if birthday: ...