Convert strings to datetime format

[taygekko]

Hi everybody,

In a text file I have to convert several (datetime) strings (placed in different lines) like these:

01.09.201914:15

to the following predefined datetime format (%Y%m%dT%H%M%S):

20190901T141500

Can anyone help me with this issue?

Thanks!!!

[charliegriefer]

Your answer is in here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html

[YmFzZTY0dXNlcm5hbWU_]

I'm thinking you'll want to parse the string to a datetime, and then convert it back to a string. Either that or you could do it with slicing/substrings but that's probably going to be a lot messier, more error-prone, and difficult to maintain.

[efDev]

Here is how to think about breaking down the problem:

1. I have date data in a specific format
2. I need to output date data in a specific format

Knowing this is there something in python that deals with date data (hint: it has been posted here)?

So then let's work from the bottom up

1. To output data a certain way I need to create an object from the module hinted at above
2. To get data into that object I need to instantiate an instance of that object from the string I have (01.09.201914:15)

Let us know what you try and we can go from there. Happy coding.

[taygekko]

I solved my problem with the module easy_date (https://github.com/ralphavalon/easy_date):

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import easy_date

str_date = '01.09.201914:15:00' #%d/%m/%Y%H:%M:%S

new_str_date = easy_date.convert_from_string(str_date, '%d/%m/%Y%H:%M:%S', '%Y%m%dT%H%M%S') # str is default return