datetime object from string

[Douglas Douglas]

Hi everybody.

I need to create a datetime object from a string like "20/01/2005 15:10:01". I
know the mxDateTime module can do this with the DateTimeFrom method, but I was
wondering if is possible to do this using only the standard library.

I read the datetime object reference but didn't find a method that does it
directly.

Is it possible to do it with the standard library?

Thanks all.

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[Raymond Hettinger]

Hi everybody.

I need to create a datetime object from a string like "20/01/2005 15:10:01". I
know the mxDateTime module can do this with the DateTimeFrom method, but I was
wondering if is possible to do this using only the standard library.

I read the datetime object reference but didn't find a method that does it
directly.

Is it possible to do it with the standard library?

Here's one way:

import time, datetime
s = '20/01/2005 15:10:01'
time_tuple = time.strptime(s, "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S")
datetime.datetime(*time_tuple[:6])

datetime.datetime(2005, 1, 20, 15, 10, 1)

http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-datetime.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html

Raymond