How can I format the datetime tuple returned by python from mysql

Question

My python is running a query and returns the output txn_time as shown below.

    try:
    connection = pymysql.connect(host=db, user=user,
                                 password=pwd,
                                 db=db_name)
    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
        cursor.execute(**txn_query**.format(a,b,c))
        return cursor.fetchall()
except:

txn_query= "SELECT txn_time FROM transactions WHERE CUSTOMERID in (12345) txn_type IN (111) ORDER BY 1 DESC"

Output: (datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 25, 10, 6, 29),)

I need to format it to the time: 2020-08-25 10:06:29 Tried to format is using strftime but couldn't achieve. Can someone help help or guide me to the right pages.

Answer 1

First, take the datetime object out of the tuple with this: txn_time = txn_time[0] . Then, simply use this: txn_time_str = txn_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") ! This should put the string you want into a variable called txn_time_str .

Answer 2

It's simple actually - in my case the result set returned a tuple so i just had to access the first element which had my result set. And then it automatically converted the time back to what was seen in the DB.

#before
print(result)
(datetime.datetime(2020, 8, 25, 10, 6, 29),)


#after
result = result[0] #first element of the returned tuple
print(result)
2020-08-26 02:01:01