5.1.8.1 Creating Datetime Objects from Formatted Strings
From Python 2.5
5.1.8.1 Creating Datetime Objects from Formatted Strings
The datetime class does not directly support parsing formatted time strings. You can use time.strptime to do the parsing and create a datetime object from the tuple it returns:
>>> s = "2005-12-06T12:13:14" >>> from datetime import datetime >>> from time import strptime >>> datetime(*strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")[0:6]) datetime.datetime(2005, 12, 6, 12, 13, 14)
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Release 2.5, documentation updated on 19th September, 2006.