Datetime_Convert_string_to_datetime_object.ipynb

Kernel: Python 3

Datetime - Convert a string date to a datetime object

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Tags: #datetime #snippet #operations #python

Author: Florent Ravenel

Last update: 2023-07-05 (Created: 2023-07-05)

Description: This notebook converts a string date to a datetime object

References:

• Python datetime library

Input

Import library

from datetime import datetime

Setup Variables

To parse your date format : you can use the d3 time format documentation

• date_string: Date string

• current_format: Date string format

# Date string format
date_string = "2022-02-25"

# Your date string format
current_format = "%Y-%m-%d"

Model

Convert a string date to a datetime object

datetime_obj = datetime.strptime(date_string, current_format)
datetime_obj

Output

Display result

print(datetime_obj)