Python date conversion [closed]

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com//questions/21049860

  •  22-12-2019
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Question

Okay, I give up. Python version 2.7.2

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datestr = "2014-01-24"
>>> displaydateobj = datetime.date(datetime.strptime(datestr,'%Y-%d-%m'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\lib\_strptime.py", line 328, in _strptime
data_string[found.end():])
ValueError: unconverted data remains: 4

What am I missing? I have reviewed the strptime format strings a dozen times.

Was it helpful?

Solution

Should that be:

datetime.date(datetime.strptime(datestr,'%Y-%m-%d'))?

OTHER TIPS

Your format string is backwards. It should be %Y-%m-%d. As you have it, it's trying to put the value 24 into %m and failing because there is no month 24

Try this:

datetime.strptime(datestr,'%Y-%m-%d').date()
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