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Have a date string and want to find the format string needed to parse it?

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Converting a string to a datetime

The datetime.strptime class method can parse a date/time string into a datetime object.

Apr 9 at 11:03amMissingLettr
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@treyhunner as I believe I mentioned the last time you posted this, the best strategy is to use Python 3.11+ and standard ISO 8601 format strings. In that case, the ”fromisoformat()” methods will handle everything for you. 😊

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.fromisoformat

datetime — Basic date and time types

Source code: Lib/datetime.py The datetime module supplies classes for manipulating dates and times. While date and time arithmetic is supported, the focus of the implementation is on efficient attr...

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