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user2492364

Reputation: 6713

python : convert string to time object

I got a string date

date = '2014-12-18T19:00:00-07:00'

But I have no idea how to save this to models.DateTimeField( null=True,blank=True)

Please help me how to convert this sting to datetime object Thank you very much

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7506

Answers (2)

rurouni88
rurouni88

Reputation: 1173

Traditionally, see https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.strptime

# %z is supported in Python 3.2 onwards. Older versions of python don't support that.
from datetime import datetime
date = '2014-12-18T19:00:00-07:00'
format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"
datetime_obj = datetime.strptime(date, format)
print datetime_obj.strftime(format)

Alternatively, because you have an iso8601 sting format already, someone already wrote a parser for that. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil/1.5

import dateutil.parser
date = '2014-12-18T19:00:00-07:00'
datetime_obj = dateutil.parser.parse(date)

Upvotes: 8

Jivan
Jivan

Reputation: 23098

import datetime
format = "%Y-%m-%d %I:%M%p" # the format your input date is in
date_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, format)

Upvotes: 0

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