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How to transfer unicode to datetime in python?

I dumps a datetime object into to json object and I get: 

a = u'2015-02-17T15:06:23.869000'

How to transfer it back to a datetime object?

Solution

  • You can use the following code:

    >>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(u"2015-02-17T15:06:23.869000", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f")
datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 17, 15, 6, 23, 869000)

    to parse it back to a datetime object. JSON has no special representation for a datetime object, so your program encodes it as a string.