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Parse date string and change format

I have a date string with the format 'Mon Feb 15 2010'. I want to change the format to '15/02/2010'. How can I do this?

Solution

  • The datetime module could help you with that:

    datetime.datetime.strptime(input_date_string, input_format).strftime(output_format)

    For the specific example, you could do:

    >>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('Mon Feb 15 2010', '%a %b %d %Y').strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
'15/02/2010'

    Learn more about different formats here.