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Parsing Dates and Times from Strings using python

I’m reading a string

"2011-06-11"

How can I cast this to a date object?

thanks

Answer 1

If you know it will be in that format, you can use the strptime function:

datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d").date()

(and it’s not a cast, you’re actually creating a new date out of the string)

If you don’t know the format of the date, I suggest looking at the dateutil module which provides a powerful date parsing function.