Converting a string into date time

Question

I have the following date in python, as a string which I want to convert to datetime

I tried using strptime function, but due to the format with decimals and a marginal value, it keeps failing. Any idea on how to convert it? The date string structure is like this example: 2022-02-08 17:12:35.667000+00:00

Answer 1

The dateutil module has something just for this. You can use its parser to create a datetime object from a string like this.

from dateutil import parser

date_obj = parser.parse("2022-02-08 17:12:35.667000+00:00")

EDIT:

I don't believe that this is a default python library, so you can type this code into the terminal to install it with pip: pip install python-dateutil