Django Date Input Parsing?

If you are using django.forms look at DateField.input_formats. This argument allows to define several date formats. DateField tries to parse raw data according to those formats in order.

Django doesn't, so to speak, by Python does. It seems I'm wrong here, as uptimebox's answer shows.

Say you're parsing this string: 'Wed Apr 21 19:29:07 +0000 2010' (This is from Twitter's JSON API)

You'd parse it into a datetime object like this:

import datetime

JSON_time = 'Wed Apr 21 19:29:07 +0000 2010'
my_time = datetime.datetime.strptime(JSON_time, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y')

print type(my_time)

You'd get this, confirming it is a datetime object:

<type 'datetime.datetime'>

More information on strptime() can be found here.