str date to datetime date code example

Example 1: 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')

Example 2: str to datetime time

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('03:55', '%H:%M').time()
datetime.time(3, 55)