If I have a string of timestamp, is there some python library that can identify the format of timestamp and give me a datetime object? Example of a string is:
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 07:50:17 GMT
Can you also give an example of how it can be done?
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Use dateutil. You can install it with pip.
from dateutil.parser import parse
dt = parse('Sat, 16 Jan 2016 07:50:17 GMT')
print(dt)
print(type(dt))
Output
2016-01-16 07:50:17+00:00 <type 'datetime.datetime'>
4 Comments
user2020056
For what it's worth, the package you have to install is "python-dateutil"
TanviP
Hi. I was wondering if there was a way to obtain the format as a string, based on the input datetime value. For example: input value = 1978-07-06 output value = '%Y-%m-%d'
mhawke
@TanviP: I think that you should search to see if a similar question has already been asked and, if you can't find one, ask it as a separate question. Perhaps looking at the
dateutils source code might help.TanviP
@mhawke looked it up and couldn't find an answer. Asked a separate question (stackoverflow.com/questions/50893955/…) but couldn't find an answer there either. Tried using the dateinfer package, but no luck. Could use some help here.
You can use strptime() for parsing the string to a datetime type object.
from datetime import datetime
date_str = "Sat, 16 Jan 2016 07:50:17 GMT"
date_obj = datetime.strptime(date_str, '%a, %d %b %Y %X %Z')
print type(date_obj)
Output:
<type 'datetime.datetime'>
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user3563059
But it won't automatically identify the format of timestamp
salmanwahed
yes. I think I misunderstood your question. You can follow mhawke's answer. I shall keep the answer as it shows another way of doing the same thing.