How to convert dd-mm-yyyy to ISODate format in python3

Question

convert datestring to ISODate format: for ex: 11-05-2020 --- > 2020-05-11 16:05:58.970Z

Answer 1

You can use the datetime module to convert between strings and datetime objects.

For example to read the string, you can prescribe what the format is

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> d = datetime.strptime('11-05-2020', '%d-%m-%Y')
>>> d
datetime.datetime(2020, 5, 11, 0, 0)

Then using this datetime object you can convert to another string representation

>>> d.isoformat()
'2020-05-11T00:00:00'