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How do I turn a python datetime into a string, with readable format date?


t = e['updated_parsed']
dt = datetime.datetime(t[0],t[1],t[2],t[3],t[4],t[5],t[6]
print dt
>>>2010-01-28 08:39:49.000003

How do I turn that into a string?:

"January 28, 2010"

Solution

  • The datetime class has a method strftime. The Python docs documents the different formats it accepts: strftime() and strptime() Behavior

    For this specific example, it would look something like:

    my_datetime.strftime("%B %d, %Y")