datetime.strptime Format does not match format '%d. %B %Y'

Question

I want to convert type of string date to other format which as dd-mm-yyyy

date_stringg='24. Juli 2020'

date_object = datetime.strptime((date_stringg), "%d. %B %Y")

print("date_object: ", date_object)

Answer 1

You may need to set the locale. Juli is not a valid month name in english language, I'm assuming it is Dutch.

Assuming you want to use the Dutch locale with datetime, you can do the following

import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "nl_nl")

After that, it will recognize Juli so this will work

>>> date_stringg='24. Juli 2020'
>>> 
>>> date_object = datetime.strptime((date_stringg), "%d. %B %Y")
>>> date_object
datetime.datetime(2020, 7, 24, 0, 0)