How to convert string to datetime in python [duplicate]

Try the following code, which uses strptime from the datetime module:

from datetime import datetime
datetime.strptime('2011-03-07','%Y-%m-%d')

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You can use datetime.date:

>>> import datetime
>>> s = '2011-03-07'
>>> datetime.date(*map(int, s.split('-')))
datetime.date(2011, 3, 7)

Try this:

import datetime
print(datetime.datetime.strptime('2011-03-07', '%Y-%m-%d'))

The datetime.datetime object from the standard library has the datetime.strptime(date_string, format) constructor that is likely to be more reliable than any manual string manipulation you do yourself.

Read up on strptime strings to work out how to specify the format you want.

Check out datetime.datetime.strptime and its sister strftime for this:

from datetime import datetime
time_obj = datetime.strptime("2011-03-07", "%Y-%m-%d")

It is used for parsing and formating from datetime to string and back.