Compare dates with four digit years

Question

I need to compare dates in this format:

'03/31/2018' # month/day/year

I tried to use the datetime module:

from datetime import datetime as dt
dt.strptime("03/31/2018", "%m/%d/%y")

But I got this error:

ValueError: unconverted data remains: 18

If I use a two digit year:

dt.strptime("03/31/18", "%m/%d/%y")

It works, but in this case I need to compare using the whole four digits year

Answer 1

You need to use a big Y

>>> from datetime import datetime as dt
>>> dt.strptime("03/31/2018", "%m/%d/%Y")
datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 31, 0, 0)