How do I turn this date into a python datetime object?

Question

I want a datetime object, but I have strings in this format:

2010-10-06T08:12:41Z

How do I turn that into a datetime object?

Answer 1

import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime("2010-10-06T08:12:41Z", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")

Answer 2

from datetime import datetime
print datetime.strptime(timestring, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

it's in the docs