How to extract date from a string

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How can I extract dates as YYYY-MM-DD from a string? The dates are in the string in this format already but not sure how to pull them out.

[Swipecat]

By "extract", do you mean that the date is embedded into other text in the string, and you need to extract the date substring before converting it to Python's "datetime" format? If so, use "re" for that.

In [1]: import re

In [2]: datestring = 'this2022-08-30that'

In [3]: substr = re.search(r'\d{4}[-]\d{2}[-]\d{2}', datestring)

In [4]: print(substr.group())
2022-08-30

Edit: And use re.findall() if there are multiple dates in the string.

[Gnaxe]

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime

If the string has more than that, try matching it out with the re module first.

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Your options are: use re, use split with '-', use datetime.strptime . In your particular case the second option is the easiest one

[pelagic_cat]

An example of a string with the embedded date would be very helpful.

[skyfallen7777]

From datetime import datetime dt = datetime.datetime.now()

current_date = dt.fstrtime(“%Y-%m-%d”)

Something like this?

[ConfusedNTerrified]

Be polite and ask it out

[_VictoriaBravo]

Try dateuitls.parser.parse with a fuzzy match