将字符串转换为包含区域名称的有效日期时间对象

Question

I have the following string

date = "Thu May 08 2014 12:06:43 GMT+0300 (EEST)"

How can I turn it in to a valid python datetime object using stptime?

I did this

datePy = datetime.strptime(date, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S (%Z)")

but didn't work. The traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 325, in _strptime
    (data_string, format))
ValueError: time data 'Thu May 08 2014 12:06:43 GMT+0300 (EEST)' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S (%Z)'

For some background details I get the date string from javascript Date.toString() function send it to my django back end and want to turn it to python datetime object that is naive.

Answer 1

You aren't using the correct formatting (which is quite clear from the error). For example, you have a , after the %a which isn't there in your string and %d (Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number.) instead of %B (Month as locale's full name). Try:

datePy = datetime.strptime(date, "%a %B %d %Y %H:%M:%S (%Z)")