AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime'

Question

I am using the following code to use the date in a specific format and running into following error..how to put date in m/d/y format?

from datetime import datetime, date  def main ():     cr_date = '2013-10-31 18:23:29.000227'     crrdate = cr_date.strftime(cr_date,"%m/%d/%Y")  if __name__ == '__main__':     main() 

Error:-

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime' 

Answer 1

You should use datetime object, not str.

>>> from datetime import datetime >>> cr_date = datetime(2013, 10, 31, 18, 23, 29, 227) >>> cr_date.strftime('%m/%d/%Y') '10/31/2013' 

To get the datetime object from the string, use datetime.datetime.strptime:

>>> datetime.strptime(cr_date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f') datetime.datetime(2013, 10, 31, 18, 23, 29, 227) >>> datetime.strptime(cr_date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f').strftime('%m/%d/%Y') '10/31/2013' 

Answer 2

you should change cr_date(str) to datetime object then you 'll change the date to the specific format:

cr_date = '2013-10-31 18:23:29.000227' cr_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(cr_date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f') cr_date = cr_date.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")