I want to convert my string date to django date format. I tried a method. but did not work.
date = datetime.datetime.strptime(request.POST.get('date'),"Y-mm-dd").date()
I got this error.
time data '2014-04-07' does not match format 'Y-mm-dd'
what 's wrong in my code.
It should be %Y-%m-%d:
>>> s = "2014-04-07"
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
datetime.date(2014, 4, 7)
According to the documentation:
%Y stands for a year with century as a decimal number%m - month as a zero-padded decimal number%d - day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number
ValueError: unconverted data remains: T18:30:00.000Z How can I convert this string date: 2019-10-15T18:30:00.000Z?It might be convenient to use django's dateparse in this case.
from django.utils.dateparse import parse_date
date_str = request.POST.get('date')
date = parse_date(date_str)
parse_date not working as espected and returns None if date not in %Y-%m-%d format.
parse_datetime worked for me.django.utils.dateparse.parse_date function will return None if given date not in %Y-%m-%d format
I have not found a function in django source code to parse string by DATE_INPUT_FORMATS. So I wrote a custom helper function for that and
I have added to here for help others.
from datetime import datetime
from django.utils.formats import get_format
def parse_date(date_str):
"""Parse date from string by DATE_INPUT_FORMATS of current language"""
for item in get_format('DATE_INPUT_FORMATS'):
try:
return datetime.strptime(date_str, item).date()
except (ValueError, TypeError):
continue
return None
DATE_INPUT_FORMATS includes these formats both, it works buggy. I think you should not use both formats.It might be convenient to use Django's dateparse's parse_datetime in this case. you don't have to explicitly apply the data time format if that is dynamic.
from django.utils.dateparse import parse_datetime
date = parse_datetime(datetime_str)
