On Aug 22, 5:11 pm, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Ronn Ross<ronn.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm new to python and I'm getting a date time from a field in the database > > that looks like this: > > 8/2/2009 8:36:16 AM (UTC)
> datetime.datetime.strptime() will give you a datetime object, which > you can then format in a wide variety of ways using its strftime() > method. Doesn't work with dates earlier than 1900, I believe. The datetime module works from 0001-01-01 onwards; see http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.MINYEAR Other things worth mentioning: (1) datetime.datetime.strptime() was introduced in Python 2.5; for Python 2.3 and 2.4, use time.strptime() [which may not like years before 1970] followed by datetime.datetime() (2) as the input has 12-hour clock plus AM/PM, ensure that you use %I instead of %H for the hour component; %H won't do what you expect if your expectation is not based on reading the docs :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
