如何格式化从表中检索的 Python 中的日期？

Question

This is my code where I'm writing my data into a file. How do I convert my dob variable into a different date format. Dob Currently shoes up in the file as: 2020-04-30 00:00:00 but I want it to show as 4/30/2020. Any suggestions?

    with open(r"C:\inetpub\ftproot\mhv\mhv_exportdetail.txt",'w') as f:
    for companyrow in company_rows:
        # Joining the ints,and strings in the tuple to convert to a string
        newRow = '\t'.join(map(str,companyrow))
        #print(newRow)

        dob  =(companyrow[12])

Answer 1

from datetime import datetime

oldformat = '2020-04-30 00:00:00'
dob = datetime.strptime(oldformat,'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').strftime('%m/%d/%Y')
print (dob)

prints:

04/30/2020

Answer 2

Something like this should work for you.

from datetime import datetime

previous_datetime = "2020-04-30 00:00:00"
new_datetime = datetime.strptime(previous_datetime, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').strftime('%m/%d/%Y')
print(new_datetime)

Which will output:

04/30/2020

I would recommend learning the strftime() and strptime() Format Codes , as they can prove very useful.