convert date string to time 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: how to parse timestamp in python

"Jun 28 2018 at 7:40AM" -> "%b %d %Y at %I:%M%p"
"September 18, 2017, 22:19:55" -> "%B %d, %Y, %H:%M:%S"
"Sun,05/12/99,12:30PM" -> "%a,%d/%m/%y,%I:%M%p"
"Mon, 21 March, 2015" -> "%a, %d %B, %Y"
"2018-03-12T10:12:45Z" -> "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"