Python DateUtil Converting string to a date and time

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#python #pyodbc #pythondateutil

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 8

The problem you're having is that any arguments you pass to parser.parse only affect how the string is parsed, not how the subsequent object is printed.

parser.parse returns a datetime object - when you print it it will just use datetime's default __str__ method. If you replace your last line with

print dt.strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")

it will work as you expect.

ANSWER 2

Score 4

The standard lib (built-in) datetime lib can do this easily.

from datetime import datetime

my_date_string = "2001/9/1 12:00:03"
d = datetime.strptime(my_date_string, "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")
print d.strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")