In this lesson i want to show you how to Convert “unknown format” strings to datetime objects in Python.
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Convert “unknown format” strings to datetime objects in Python
Converting “unknown format” strings to datetime objects in Python can be done using the dateutil library’s parse function. The parse function is flexible and can handle a variety of date formats, even if they are not known in advance. this is an example:
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from dateutil import parser date_string = "2022-12-25 12:30:00" date_object = parser.parse(date_string) print(date_object) |
Output:
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2022-12-25 12:30:00 |
You can also use the strptime method of the datetime module if you know the format of the string, for example:
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from datetime import datetime date_string = "2022-12-25 12:30:00" date_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" date_object = datetime.strptime(date_string, date_format) print(date_object) |
Output:
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2022-12-25 12:30:00 |