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I want to change string date time to django date time

Hello everyone I am new to Django and using newsapi to get some news, the API returns a JSON object having a datetime attribute like this 2018-04-22T11:38:05Z. I want to serialize it into Django DateTimeField. I have tried .date() but it didn't work. Any help will be appreciated.

Solution

  • Use strptime to convert the string to Python datetime object.

    import datetime

datetime_string = '2018-04-22T11:38:05Z'
datetime_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(datetime_string, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
print(datetime_obj)

    Output

    2018-04-22 11:38:05