Nevermind. i seem to have found the answer in that wonderful PLEAC site (I always forget about that.
It appears that the following works: import time, datetime timestring = "2005-09-01 12:30:09" time_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime(mytime, time_format))) Ed On 15/03/06, Ed Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have a lot of questions today. Sorry. > > How can I convert a string in the format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" into a > datetime object? > > I can work out how to convert it to a time object by: > > import time > timestring = "2005-09-01 12:30:09" > time_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" > mytime = time.strptime(timestring,time_format) > > I can't seem to work out how to convert the time object into a > datetime object... > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanks > > Ed > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor