How to convert a date string to different format
If you can live with 01 for January instead of 1, then try...
d = datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-1-25", '%Y-%m-%d')
print datetime.date.strftime(d, "%m/%d/%y")
You can check the docs for other formatting directives.
I assume I have import datetime
before running each of the lines of code below
datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-1-25", '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%m/%d/%y')
prints "01/25/13"
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If you can't live with the leading zero, try this:
dt = datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-1-25", '%Y-%m-%d')
print '{0}/{1}/{2:02}'.format(dt.month, dt.day, dt.year % 100)
This prints "1/25/13"
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EDIT: This may not work on every platform:
datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-1-25", '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%m/%d/%y')