How to convert a string to datetime in python? [duplicate]

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now = datetime.strptime(str(col[4].text), '%d.%m.%Y, %H:%M:%S')

print(type(now))

But the output says that the type of the now variable is: class 'datetime.datetime'

How to convert it to a custom format?

datetime.strptime's docs clearly indicate a datetime will be returned. What did you expect? — esqew
– esqew, Commented Aug 7, 2019 at 18:56
What are you asking for? What you are trying to do worked and that's a problem? — Akaisteph7
– Akaisteph7, Commented Aug 7, 2019 at 19:00

jdub · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-07 19:14:37Z

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Datetime objects have a default format when they are printed. The format section of strptime defineds the string format that the datetime STARTS as. Once it is converted to a datetime, it uses the standard representation defined by __repr__ and __str__.

To convert these values to strings in the format that you want, you can use strftime:

now = datetime.strptime(str(col[4].text), '%d.%m.%Y, %H:%M:%S')
now = now.strftime('%d.%m.%Y, %H:%M:%S')

The docs for datetime objects states that print(datetime_object) will return the ISO format representation of datetime_object. ISO format is the YYYY-MM-DD format that you are seeing when printing the datetime.

Read more here: https://docs.python.org/3.2/library/datetime.html

answered Aug 7, 2019 at 19:14

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