[your "%b" is supposed to be the abbreviated month name, not the number. Try "%m"]
In [19]: datetime.datetime(*time.strptime("20-3-2005","%d-%m-%Y")[:6])
Out[19]: datetime.datetime(2005, 3, 20, 0, 0)
Cheers,
George
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