Question

I’m dealing with a large amount of data that has both values and times (in strings). I am converting the string time values into datetime values with the following code:

time = datetime.datetime.strptime(time, " %H:%M:%S.%f")

The only problem is that some of my data has the format: 24:00:00.004. So some of the data is actually over 24 hours

Python is giving me this error:

ValueError: time data ‘ 24:00:00:004’ does not match format ‘ %H:%M:%S.%f’

Answer 1

The %H parameter can only parse values in the range 0-23. You’ll have to manually deal with those specific time stamps:

try:
     time = datetime.datetime.strptime(time, " %H:%M:%S.%f")
except ValueError:
     time = time.replace(' 24', ' 23')
     time = datetime.datetime.strptime(time, " %H:%M:%S.%f")
     time += datetime.timedelta(hours=1)