python parse string in date format to get the date

Question

There is a string and a date format. I want to get the date based on format.

If date format is YYYY.MM.dd and string is 2017.01.01 . It should transform to a valid date object.

How can I find the date.

Answer 1

You can use datetime module something like this :

from datetime import datetime
date_object = datetime.strptime('2017.01.01', '%Y.%m.%d') # Converting the given date string into a datetime object. 
formatted_date = date_object.strftime('%c') #User Defined Output Format
print(formatted_date)

This will result in :

Sun Jan  1 00:00:00 2017

You can refer to the documentation here .