Change string to a date format in python 3

Question

x = (input("month: "), input("day: "), input("Year: "))

month: 11 day: 1 Year: 2016 ('11', '11', '2016') <---- how can I convert this in to this 11/01/2016 format?

There are mainly two ways to go. You could use "/".join(x) to connect the tuple to one string, or you could feed the month/day/year into Python's datetime library. — boxmein
– boxmein, Commented Oct 18, 2017 at 14:04

emporerblk · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-18 17:43:31Z

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You don't need the functionalities of the datetime module, you can simply go:

>>> x = input("month: ") + '/' + input("day: ") + '/' + input("year: ")
month: 11
day: 01
year: 2016
>>> x
'11/01/2016'

If you want to make it look pretty and pythonic:

>>> x = "%s/%s/%s" % (input("month: "), input("day: "), input("year: "))
month: 11
day: 01
year: 2016
>>> x
'11/01/2016'

Datetime won't help you here, as it's formatting applies mostly to time math.

answered Oct 18, 2017 at 17:43

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