Django - strptime() argument 1 must be str, not None

Question

In my application user is entering his name, email, meeting date and meeting hour and I want to save all these information to my database. But application is not running. I'm getting TypeError: strptime() argument 1 must be str, not None but don't what is the reason. Everything seems like true.

models.py :

def index(request):
    context = {
        'schedules': Schedule.objects.all()
    }

    participant_name = request.POST.get('name')
    participant_email = request.POST.get('email')
    meeting_date = request.POST.get('date')
    meeting_hour = request.POST.get('hour')
    converted_meeting_date = datetime.strptime(request.POST.get('date'), "%m-%d-%Y")
    converted_meeting_hour = datetime.strptime(request.POST.get('hour'), "%H:%M")
    if request.POST.get('participant_email'):
        Schedule.objects.create(
            participant_name = request.POST.get('name'),
            participant_email = request.POST.get('email'),
            meeting_date = converted_meeting_date,
            meeting_hour = converted_meeting_hour
        )
    return render(request, 'index.html', context)

models.py :

class Schedule(models.Model):
    participant_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    participant_email = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    meeting_date = models.DateField()
    meeting_hour = models.TimeField()
    is_scheduled = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.participant_name

Answer 1

You need to check if both meeting_date and meeting_hour are not None and also you need to convert them into string before applying strptime to them.

def index(request):
    context = {
        'schedules': Schedule.objects.all()
    }

    participant_name = request.POST.get('name')
    participant_email = request.POST.get('email')
    meeting_date = str(request.POST.get('date'))
    meeting_hour = str(request.POST.get('hour'))
    converted_meeting_date = datetime.strptime(request.POST.get('date'), "%m-%d-%Y").date() if meeting_date else None
    converted_meeting_hour = datetime.strptime(request.POST.get('hour'), "%H:%M").time() if meeting_hour else None
    if request.POST.get('participant_email'):
        Schedule.objects.create(
            participant_name = request.POST.get('name'),
            participant_email = request.POST.get('email'),
            meeting_date = converted_meeting_date,
            meeting_hour = converted_meeting_hour
        )
    return render(request, 'index.html', context)