Convert date format yyyy-m-d into yyyy-mm-dd on Python

Question

In my table, I have different types of dates just with numbers and in this two formats:

yyyy-m-d
yyyy-mm-dd

Some values, as the month for example, don't have the zero in the case of months under 10 and I need it to create a condition to chose elements by the latest date.

I want that all of them have the same format:

yyyy-mm-dd

Any pythonic way to solve that?

For the moment I am using this:

if line.startswith('# Date:           '):
    #date = 2014-5-28
    d = line.strip().split(':')[-1].split('-').replace(' ','') 
        if len(d[0]) == 4:
            year = str(d[0])
        elif len(d[1]) < 2:
            month = '0'+ str(d[1])
        elif len(d[2]< 2):
            day = '0'+ str(d[1])

                        date = year +  month + day 

Answer 1

You can use the python inbuilt datetime module

import datetime

date1 = "2018-1-1"
date2 = "2018-01-01"

datetime_object = datetime.datetime.strptime(date1, "%Y-%m-%d")
datetime_object2 = datetime.datetime.strptime(date2, "%Y-%m-%d")

print datetime_object.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
print datetime_object2.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

Result:

2018-01-01
2018-01-01

Answer 2

Try the below code ! You have to import the date time file .

Input :

import datetime

date1 = datetime.datetime.strptime("2015-1-3", "%Y-%m-%d").strftime("%d-%m-%Y")
print(date1)

today = datetime.date.today().strftime("%d-%m-%Y")
print(today)

Output :

03-01-2015
17-01-2018

Answer 3

You can try:

>>> d = "2018-1-1"
>>> d_list = d.split("-")
>>> d_list
['2018', '1', '1']
>>> if len(d_list[1]) < 2:
    d_list[1] = "0"+d_list[1]

>>> if len(d_list[2]) < 2:
    d_list[2] = "0"+d_list[2]

>>> d_list
['2018', '01', '01']