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Amogha Varsha
Amogha Varsha

Reputation: 129

Custom date format parsing in python

I am trying to the parse dates of the format '2016-04-15T12:24:20.707Z' in Python, tried strptime, doesn't work and I also tried django parse_datetime but it only returns none as the value

Upvotes: 10

Views: 14433

Answers (6)

JayRizzo
JayRizzo

Reputation: 3616

You may try this way if you need something on the fly:

This returns the current datetime in UTC, as a datetime object then immediately converts it to your preferred custom format.

from datetime import datetime, timezone
from time import strftime

# Get UTC Time datetime object and convert it to your preferred format.
print(f"Regular    : { datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }")  # Regular    : 2022-06-04 23:08:27
print(f"Log  Format: { datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y%m%d_%H%M%S') }")      # Log  Format: 20220604_230827
print(f"YMD  Format: { datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }")           # YMD  Format: 2022-06-04
print(f"Time Format: { datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%H:%M:%S') }")           # Time Format: 23:08:27

# Without the f'String'
print(datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))  # Regular    : 2022-06-04 23:08:27
print(datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y%m%d_%H%M%S'))      # Log  Format: 20220604_230827
print(datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))           # YMD  Format: 2022-06-04
print(datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime('%H%M%S'))             # Time Format: 23:08:27


# Details:
# Get current DateTime in UTC
datetime.now(timezone.utc)
# datetime.datetime(2022, 6, 4, 23, 13, 27, 498392, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
type(datetime.now(timezone.utc))
# <class 'datetime.datetime'>

# Use the strftime on the datetime object directly
datetime(2022, 6, 4, 23, 13, 27, 498392, tzinfo=timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
# '2022-06-04 23:13:27'
type(datetime(2022, 6, 4, 23, 13, 27, 498392, tzinfo=timezone.utc).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
# <class 'str'>

Upvotes: 0

Md. Rezwanul Haque
Md. Rezwanul Haque

Reputation: 2950

You may try this way : 

from datetime import datetime
date_str = '2016-04-15T12:24:20.707Z'
date = datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")

print(date)

Output:

2016-04-15 12:24:20.707000

Upvotes: 15

leotrubach
leotrubach

Reputation: 1597

Probably iso8601 package is what you need

Upvotes: 0

JPG
JPG

Reputation: 88459

You have to specify the format as "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ" while conversion

In [11]: from datetime import datetime

In [12]: out_format = "%Y-%m-%d"

In [13]: input_format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ"

In [14]: date_time_obj = datetime.strptime(time,input_format)

In [15]: date_time_obj
Out[15]: datetime.datetime(2016, 4, 15, 12, 24, 20, 707000)

In [16]: date_time_str = date_time_obj.strftime(out_format)

In [17]: date_time_str
Out[17]: '2016-04-15'

Upvotes: 3

meissner_
meissner_

Reputation: 541

This seems to be working alright:

import dateparser
dateparser.parse('2016-04-15T12:24:20.707Z')

> datetime.datetime(2016, 4, 15, 12, 24, 20, 707000, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'Z'>)

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Komiagin
Andrew Komiagin

Reputation: 6556

import dateutil.parser
from datetime import datetime 

dt = dateutil.parser.parse('2016-04-15T12:24:20.707Z')

Upvotes: 0

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