Parse date string and change format

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Nimmy picture Nimmy · Feb 15, 2010 · Viewed 193.9k times · Source

I have a date string with the format 'Mon Feb 15 2010'. I want to change the format to '15/02/2010'. How can I do this?

Answer

SilentGhost picture SilentGhost · Feb 15, 2010

datetime module could help you with that:

datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, format1).strftime(format2)

For the specific example you could do 

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('Mon Feb 15 2010', '%a %b %d %Y').strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
'15/02/2010'
>>>

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