I have following string of date "2018-05-08" and I would like to convert it into the datetime format of python like: "2018-05-08T00:00:00.0000000". I understand I can combine the string like:
> date = "2018-05-08"
> time = "T00:00:00.0000000"
> date+time
'2018-05-08T00:00:00.0000000'
But is there pythonic way of doing it where I can use libraries like datetime?
You can use datetime module like this example:
import datetime
date = "2018-05-08"
final = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f')
print(final)
Output:
2018-05-08T00:00:00.000000
For more details visit datetime's documentation
Use this code
from datetime import date
from datetime import datetime
d = date.today()
datetime.combine(d, datetime.min.time())
import date_converter my_datetime = date_converter.date_to_datetime(my_date)from datetime import datetime
datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime('2018-05-08','%Y-%m-%d'),'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f')
OUTPUT:
'2018-05-08T00:00:00.000000'
from datetime import datetime
date_as_datetime = datetime.strptime("2018-05-08", '%Y-%m-%d')
date_as_string = date_as_datetime.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
print(date_as_string)
Out:
'2018-05-08T00:00:00'
See strptime/strftime options here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
Yes, you can use the datetime module and the strftime method from that module. Here is an example below if we want to format the current time.
import datetime
current_time = datetime.datetime.now()
formatted_time = datetime.datetime.strftime(current_time, "%Y-%h-%d %H:%m:%S")
print(formatted_time)
Here is the output:
2018-May-08 13:05:16
