Python date string to date object

You can use strptime in the datetime package of Python:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('24052010', "%d%m%Y").date()
datetime.date(2010, 5, 24)

import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime('24052010', '%d%m%Y').date()

Directly related question:

What if you have

datetime.datetime.strptime("2015-02-24T13:00:00-08:00", "%Y-%B-%dT%H:%M:%S-%H:%M").date()

and you get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 308, in _strptime
    format_regex = _TimeRE_cache.compile(format)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 265, in compile
    return re_compile(self.pattern(format), IGNORECASE)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 194, in compile
    return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 251, in _compile
    raise error, v # invalid expression
sre_constants.error: redefinition of group name 'H' as group 7; was group 4

and you tried:

<-24T13:00:00-08:00", "%Y-%B-%dT%HH:%MM:%SS-%HH:%MM").date()

but you still get the traceback above.

Answer:

>>> from dateutil.parser import parse
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> parse("2015-02-24T13:00:00-08:00")
datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 24, 13, 0, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -28800))

you have a date string like this, "24052010" and you want date object for this,

from datetime import datetime
cus_date = datetime.strptime("24052010", "%d%m%Y").date()

this cus_date will give you date object.

you can retrieve date string from your date object using this,

cus_date.strftime("%d%m%Y")