Flask - Flask-Moment gives out an error: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime' - datetime

Question

Ok, so i want to change a datetime value from mysql database into a desired format. so my code goes:
file: app.py
from flask import Flask, render_template, flash, redirect, url_for, session, request, logging
from datetime import datetime
from flask_moment import Moment
app = Flask(__name__)
moment = Moment(app)
mysql = MySQL(cursorclass=DictCursor)
#app.route('/users')
def users():
# create cursor
cur = mysql.get_db().cursor()
# execute query
cur.execute('SELECT * FROM users')
# get results
users = cur.fetchall()
return render_template('users.html', title = 'User Accounts', users=users)
then on my users.html, i display the datetime value on a table which goes:
file: users.html
<tbody>
{% for row in users %}
<tr>
<td>{{row.id}}</td>
<td>{{row.username}}</td>
<td>{{row.fullname}}</td>
<td>{{moment(row.created_at).format('LLL')}}</td> # this causes an error
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</tbody>
But when i put in the following code for the datetime:
<td>{{moment().format('LLL')}}</td> # this is working
So in short,
# this is not working
# Causes an "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime'" error
moment(row.created_at).format('LLL')
# this is working
# but i can't modify the data based on the value from mysql database
moment().format('LLL')
# by the way, this is also not working
# and it also causes the same error
row.created_at.strftime('%M %d, %Y')
What i need to know is how to format datetime value in the flask template and Flask-Moment seems to be the only way

Answer 1

EDIT:
You can also try using:
{{ row.created_at.strftime('%M %d, %Y') }}
or the jinja datetime filter:
{{ row.created_at|datetime }}
ORIGINAL ANSWER:
It appears you need to convert from MySQL DateTime to Python datetime. Without seeing more of your code, maybe something like this would work, though there is probably a more efficient way:
# get results
users = cur.fetchall()
for user in users:
user.created_at = datetime.strptime(user.created_at, '%Y-%M-%d') # you have to use the mysql format here
return render_template('users.html', title = 'User Accounts', users=users)
You are using strftime when it appears that python is interpreting the MySQL datetime as a string, not a datetime() object, so you have to use strptime

Answer 2

Momentjs couldn't parse it because it is an 'str'. Use datetime to parse the string before passing it to the momentjs object e.g
from datetime import datetime
row_created_at = datetime.strptime(row_created_at, %m %d,%Y ')
then pass it to the momentjs object like so
{{moment(row_created).format("LLL")}}
That should do the trick