From the datetime.datetime.strptime()
documentation:
This is equivalent to
datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))
.
For older Python versions (e.g. 2.3 or 2.4), use just that:
import datetime
import time
datetime.datetime(*(time.strptime(myTimestring, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')[:6]))
Demo:
>>> import datetime
>>> import time
>>> myTimestring = '2013-01-01 12:42:23'
>>> datetime.datetime(*(time.strptime(myTimestring, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')[:6]))
datetime.datetime(2013, 1, 1, 12, 42, 23)