Python Date String to Date Object

Python date string to date object

You can use strptime in the datetime package of Python:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('24052010', "%d%m%Y").date()
datetime.date(2010, 5, 24)

Convert datetime object to a String of date only in Python

You can use strftime to help you format your date.

E.g.,

import datetime
t = datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 23, 0, 0)
t.strftime('%m/%d/%Y')

will yield:

'02/23/2012'

More information about formatting see here

Converting string to date object without time info

The object that is returned by datetime.datetime.strptime is a datetime.datetime object rather than a datetime.date object. As such it will have the time information included and when isoformat() is called will include this information.

You can use the datetime.datetime.date() method to convert it to a date object as below.

import datetime as dt

d = dt.datetime.strptime("25-01-1973", "%d-%m-%Y")

# Convert datetime object to date object.
d = d.date()

print(d.isoformat())
# 1973-01-25

Convert string into Date type on Python

You can do that with datetime.strptime()

Example:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('2012-02-10' , '%Y-%m-%d')
datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 10, 0, 0)
>>> _.isoweekday()
5

You can find the table with all the strptime directive here.

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To increment by 2 days if .isweekday() == 6, you can use timedelta():

>>> import datetime
>>> date = datetime.datetime.strptime('2012-02-11' , '%Y-%m-%d')
>>> if date.isoweekday() == 6:
...     date += datetime.timedelta(days=2)
... 
>>> date
datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 13, 0, 0)
>>> date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')   # if you want a string again
'2012-02-13'

Convert date string format to a datetime Python Object

from datetime import datetime

dates = {"date":"2020-08-24T21:15:00+00:00"}

date = dates.get("date")
day = datetime.strptime(date, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00")

Your looking for strptime.
Heres a good article:
https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/datetime/strptime

Python convert date format

An alternative approach using pandas function below:

import pandas as pd
d = pd.to_datetime('2020-08-14')
d.strftime('%d %B %Y')
Out[11]: '14 August 2020'

Parse date string and change format

datetime module could help you with that:

datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, format1).strftime(format2)

For the specific example you could do

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('Mon Feb 15 2010', '%a %b %d %Y').strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
'15/02/2010'
>>>

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