parse datetime string python code example

Example 1: convert into date python

date_str = '09-19-2018'

date_object = datetime.strptime(date_str, '%m-%d-%Y').date()
print(type(date_object))
print(date_object)  # printed in default formatting

Example 2: convert str to datetime

import datetime

# str value "Apr 2, 2019" convert into any format. 
datetime.datetime.strptime('Apr 2, 2019', '%b %d, %Y').strftime('%a, %d %b %Y')