Parse this date in Python: 5th November 2010

Question

I'm having a bad time with date parsing and formatting today.

Points for somebody who can parse this date format into a datetime.date or datetime.datetime (I'm not too fussy but I'd prefer .date):

5th November 2010

Answer 1

Using dateutil:

In [2]: import dateutil.parser as dparser

In [3]: date = dparser.parse('5th November 2010')

In [4]: date
Out[4]: datetime.datetime(2010, 11, 5, 0, 0)