I Have a value of
datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 28, 13, 53, 36)
and I want it to be printed as string as
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 13:53:36
I tried to
import datetime
x = datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 28, 13, 53, 36)
z = strptime(str(x), '%A, %B %d, %Y %H:%M:%S')
but got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#40>", line 1, in <module>
z = strptime(str(x), '%A, %B %d, %Y %H:%M:%S')
NameError: name 'strptime' is not defined
does anyone have an idea about this?
Given your import - the correct form of accessing strptime is datetime.datetime.strptime (parsing a string to a date) - but it doesn't look like you want that, instead you're after datetime.datetime.strftime (formats a date to a string).
Ultimately though, Python's datetime object has custom string formatting which can be accessed via str.format and will save a bit of typing, eg:
>>> dt = datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 28, 13, 53, 36)
>>> format(dt, '%A, %B %d, %Y %H:%M:%S')
'Wednesday, January 28, 2015 13:53:36'
Use the date method:
datetime.datetime.date()
You should use datetime.datetime.strptime:
import datetime
dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(string_date, fmt)
