Converting string to time in python is giving error

Question

this question might be answered but I can't find link. I'm trying to convert string to time. My string looks like '9 am'

x = datetime.datetime.strptime(start,"%I:%M %p")

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I get following error:

time data '4:30 pm' does not match format '%I:%M %p'

Where I'm wrong??

Answer 1

Your problem is that "pm" is not the same as "pm", and %p is looking only for "am" or "pm".

In order to convert your string start from "4 pm" to "4 pm", you can use

start = start.replace(".", "")

This replaces all "." characters in the string with nothing at all.

If you remove "." from your string before you convert it to a datetime, it should cause no problems.