如何将单词中的日期和时间字符串转换为数字？

Question

I have the following string: January 1, 2020 / 12:04 AM / a month ago . How do I convert this into 1/1/2020 0:04:00 ? The code should ignore the a month ago . How do I do this?

Answer 1

You could use dateutil . It is a third part extension of datetime module. You can add it with python -m pip install python-dateutil

from dateutil.parser import parse

data = 'January 1, 2020 / 12:04 AM / a month ago'

resp = parse(data, fuzzy_with_tokens=True)
print(resp[0]) # the first index is datetime object

The parser is relatively powerful. Here is documentation to Parser .

dateutil is one among many that can help you solve your problem. Good summary of tools such as maya, arrow etc are found Stackabuse thanks to @WasabiMonster

Answer 2

using strptime you can do it and below is the sample,i was using in my code

datetime.datetime.strptime(
...     "April 18, 2019, 09:09:09", "%B %d, %Y, %H:%M:%S"