How do I convert RFC822 to a python datetime object?

python rfc822
Udbhav picture Udbhav · Oct 14, 2009 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

I know how to do this the other way around... it would be:

>>> dt.rfc822()
'Sun, 09 Mar 1997 13:45:00 -0500'

Answer

John La Rooy picture John La Rooy · Oct 14, 2009 

In [1]: import rfc822     # This only works for python 2 series

In [2]: rfc822.parsedate_tz('Sun, 09 Mar 1997 13:45:00 -0500')
Out[2]: (1997, 3, 9, 13, 45, 0, 0, 1, 0, -18000)

in python3 parsedate_tz has moved to email.utils


>>> import email.utils   # this works on Python2.5 and up
>>> email.utils.parsedate_tz('Sun, 09 Mar 1997 13:45:00 -0500')
(1997, 3, 9, 13, 45, 0, 0, 1, -1, -18000)

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