Python Morsels: Converting a string to a datetime

Table of contents

1. Parsing strings into datetime objects ➡️
2. The strptime formatting directives 📑
3. Just parse my string please! ⚡
4. What time is it? It's "string parse time"⏱️
5. Converting a datetime into a string ⬅️
6. strptime parses and strftime formats 🔄
7. f-strings for datetime formatting ✨
8. strptime for date and time objects? 🤔
9. Parse with str-p-time, format with str-f-time📝

Parsing strings into datetime objects ➡️

Here's an example of the strptime class method in action:

>>> fromdatetimeimportdatetime>>> datetime.strptime("Jun 1 2005  1:33PM","%b %d %Y %I:%M%p")datetime.datetime(2005, 6, 1, 13, 33)

Note that strptime is a class method: we're calling it on the datetime class (not an instance of the class).

The strptime formatting directives 📑

Those single letter % codes …