load string as datetime 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: python string to datetime python

from dateutil import parser
datetime_object = parser.parse("Jun 1 2020  1:36PM")