python parse date code example

Example 1: string to date python

import datetime

date_time_str = '2018-06-29 08:15:27.243860'
date_time_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_time_str, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f')

print('Date:', date_time_obj.date())
print('Time:', date_time_obj.time())
print('Date-time:', date_time_obj)

Example 2: python datetime string

import datetime

today = datetime.datetime.now()
date_time = today.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
print("date and time:",date_time)

Example 3: python datetime from string

from datetime import datetime

datetime_object = datetime.strptime('Jun 1 2005  1:33PM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')

Example 4: 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"

Example 5: python parse date

import datetime

print ('Current date/time: {}'.format(datetime.datetime.now()))