使用python在mongodb中保存日期

Question

I have a field, 'date' that I take from a document. The field date has a value like this: "01.01.2014" .

I'm saving this field into a mongo database like this:

"date" : "01.01.2014",

If I split those parameters I have:

year ='2014' 
month ='01' 
day ='01' 

I want to save this field in proper type like datetime so how can I store it using those parameters?

Answer 1

Use module datetime

your date object to be saved in mongoDB would be

myDateObject = datetime.datetime(year,month,day, 0 , 0)

use myDateObject to store as a value for date key in mongoDB.

Here year, month and day are expected to be integer.

As in your question, you can also use the date field to convert it to python datetime. Assuming date is in mm.dd.yyyy format, the code to convert date into datetime object is,

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(date,"%m.%d.%Y")
datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 1, 0, 0)