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Leon
Leon

Reputation: 6554

String to datetime django

I have this string:

2014-03-13T15:10:07Z

And I need convert it to 'value', that I can save in Django DateTimeField. I know, how to do this without T and Z:

from datetime import datetime
date_object = datetime.strptime('2014-03-13 15:10:07', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

Does I need to delete T and Z from string? Will it saves in DateTimeField?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 318

Answers (1)

ohmu
ohmu

Reputation: 19780

The easiest way to parse a datetime string is with dateutil.parser.parse() from the third-party dateutil module:

>>> import dateutil.parser
>>> dateutil.parser.parse('2014-03-13T15:10:07Z')
datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 13, 15, 10, 7, tzinfo=tzutc())

This returns a datetime instance which will be aware of the timezone if it is present in the string (i.e., ending with Z, -04:00, etc.).

Upvotes: 4

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