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Hannan
Hannan

Reputation: 1191

Python convert date to datetime

I have following string of date "2018-05-08" and I would like to convert it into the datetime format of python like: "2018-05-08T00:00:00.0000000". I understand I can combine the string like:

> date = "2018-05-08"
> time = "T00:00:00.0000000"
> date+time
'2018-05-08T00:00:00.0000000'

But is there pythonic way of doing it where I can use libraries like datetime?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 19335

Answers (5)

Simeon Ikudabo
Simeon Ikudabo

Reputation: 2190

Yes, you can use the datetime module and the strftime method from that module. Here is an example below if we want to format the current time. 

import datetime

current_time = datetime.datetime.now()

formatted_time = datetime.datetime.strftime(current_time, "%Y-%h-%d %H:%m:%S")
print(formatted_time)

Here is the output: 

2018-May-08 13:05:16

Upvotes: 0

Luke Olson
Luke Olson

Reputation: 365

from datetime import datetime
date_as_datetime = datetime.strptime("2018-05-08", '%Y-%m-%d')
date_as_string = date_as_datetime.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')

print(date_as_string)

Out: 

'2018-05-08T00:00:00'

See strptime/strftime options here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

Upvotes: 0

Chiheb Nexus
Chiheb Nexus

Reputation: 9267

You can use datetime module like this example: 

import datetime 

date = "2018-05-08"
final = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f')
print(final)

Output:

2018-05-08T00:00:00.000000

For more details visit datetime's documentation

Upvotes: 8

mad_
mad_

Reputation: 8273

from datetime import datetime 
datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime('2018-05-08','%Y-%m-%d'),'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f')

OUTPUT:

'2018-05-08T00:00:00.000000'

Upvotes: 0

Chandan Kumar
Chandan Kumar

Reputation: 909

Use this code

from datetime import date
from datetime import datetime
d = date.today()
datetime.combine(d, datetime.min.time())

Upvotes: 3

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