Convert date string to another date string format

Question

I am trying to convert a string datetime to another string time i.e... May 4, 2021 but I am getting the following error

#convert '2021-05-04T05:55:43.013-0500' ->>> May 4, 2021

timing = '2021-05-04T05:55:43.013-0500'
ans = timing.strftime(f'%Y-%m-%d 'f'%H:%M:%S.%f')

Here is the error

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime'

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You want datetime.strptime() not timing.strftime(). timing is a string that doesn't have any functions called strftime. The datetime class of the datetime module^{I know, it's confusing}, OTOH, does have a function to parse a string into a datetime object. Then, that datetime object has a function strftime() that will format it into a string!

from datetime import datetime

timing = '2021-05-04T05:55:43.013-0500'

dtm_obj = datetime.strptime(timing, f'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z')

formatted_string = dtm_obj.strftime('%b %d, %Y')
print(formatted_string)
# Outputs:
# May 04, 2021