Formatting dates in Python [duplicate]

Question

I have a date in this format:

"2015/05/25"

How to format it like this:

"2015-05-25"

What have you tried, and what exactly is the problem with it? Even a trivial character replacement would suffice here. — jonrsharpe
– jonrsharpe, Commented Mar 7, 2020 at 21:37

hakansander · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-07 21:41:59Z

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You can use built-in replace method for completing this task.

dateStr = "2015/05/25"
dateStr = dateStr.replace("/","-")
print(dateStr)

For more information about the replace function, you can read https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-string-replace/

answered Mar 7, 2020 at 21:41

hakansander

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Would recommend using datetime module if you plan to actually use these dates