I have a string "Monday, May 18, 2015". I want to convert it into datetime fromat of python keeping the format same. I mean exact replica of the string but the type changed to datetime. How can I do that?
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3A [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime-objects) does not *have* a format, it can be *formated using a format*. What you ask for makes no sense. – May 19 '15 at 09:57
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from datetime import datetime
date_object = datetime.strptime('MAY 18 2015 1:33PM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')
Link to the Python documentation for strptime :https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
and a link for the strftime format mask : https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime
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Now we have a `datetime.datetime` instance. Fince. The second part of an answer would be to format this instance as a string. – May 19 '15 at 10:00
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this is a direct copy paste of this answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/466376/2141635 – Padraic Cunningham May 19 '15 at 10:45
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To convert string to date object:
from datetime import datetime
your_date_object = datetime.strptime("Monday, May 18, 2015", '%A, %b %d, %Y')
To change back date object to string:
your_date_object.strftime('%A, %b %d, %Y')
For more derivative behaviour: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
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Use the classmethod of datetime.strptime(date_string, format). This will return a datetime corresponding to date_string, parsed according to format.
