On 02/13/2016 07:13 PM, Gary Herron wrote:
On 02/13/2016 09:58 AM, Tom P wrote:
I am writing a program that has to deal with various date/time formats
and convert these into timestamps. It looks as if
dateutil.parser.parse should be able to handle about any format, but
what I get is:
datetimestr = '2012-10-22 11:22:33'
print(dateutil.parser.parse(datetimestr))
result: datetime.datetime(2012, 10, 22, 11, 22, 33)
However:
datetimestr = '2012:10:22 11:22:33'
print(dateutil.parser.parse(datetimestr))
result: datetime.datetime(2016, 2, 13, 11, 22, 33)
In other words, it's getting the date wrong when colons are used to
separate YYYY:MM:DD. Is there a way to include this as a valid format?
Yes, there is a way to specify your own format. Search the datetime
documentation for
datetime.strptime(date_string, format)
Gary Herron
Thanks. I started out with datetime.strptime but AFAICS that means I
have to go through try/except for every conceivable format. Are you
saying that I can't use dateutil.parser?
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