ISO 8601 format python code example

Example 1: python datetime to string iso format

from datetime import datetime
some_date = datetime.now()
iso_date_string = some_date.isoformat()

# For older version of python 
iso_date_string = some_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z')

Example 2: python datetime to string iso 8601

from datetime import datetime
my_date = datetime.now()
print(my_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z'))

Example 3: python strftime iso 8601

>>> # convert string in iso 8601 date dime format to python datetime type
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('2020-06-19T15:52:50Z', "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 19, 15, 52, 50)