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Yunti
Yunti

Reputation: 7448

Parsing dates with django utils parse_date

I'm trying to use parse_date to convert a string into a datetime object before saving in a DateField however it seems to keep returning nothing.Is there something I'm doing wrong?

>>> parse_date('13/07/2016')
>>>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3306

Answers (1)

Shang Wang
Shang Wang

Reputation: 25539

I'm surprised because django has this function and it just fails silently. But anyway, I played with it and it should be:

parse_date("2016-07-13")

I don't see it well documented and I still use the plain old strptime to do date/datetime conversion:

import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime('13/07/2016', "%d/%m/%Y").date()

Upvotes: 9

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