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Convert date format: 2 digit year to 4 digit year

If I have a string that contain a date, like '29/01/21', how can I convert its format to a 4 year digit instead of 2 digits?

'29/01/21'

to

'29/01/2021'
Solution

  • Pythons datetime library might be helpful.

    Please refer below code.

    from datetime import datetime

datetime.datetime.strptime('29/01/21', '%d/%m/%y').strftime("%M/%d/%Y")