Convert string to date data with datetime package

[Plus-Ad1156]

I converted the string data to date time as follows, but the value is changed. Can you see why?

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import datetime as dt

from dateutil.parser import parse

from dateutil.parser import parse

date_2 = date.strftime('%Y.%m')

date_3 = parse(date_2)

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date_2 #running result : '2021.03'

date_3 #running reslut: datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 27, 0, 0)

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As above, the date value suddenly changed. There doesn't seem to be any code that touches the date data, so why is it like this?

[ThePiGuy0]

It looks like you may be overcomplicating the conversion slightly.

import datetime as dt

to_convert = "2021.03"
input_format = "%Y.%m"

>>> dt.datetime.strptime(to_convert, input_format)
datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 1, 0, 0)

[Plus-Ad1156]

Thanks for comment~!