I am trying to convert a unicode object to a datetime object.
I read through the documentation: http://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html#time.strptime
and tried
datetime.strptime(date_posted, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
but I get the error message ValueError: time data '2014-01-15T01:35:30.314Z' does not match format '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'
Any feedback on what is the proper format?
I appreciate the time and expertise.
The strptime() function in Python is used to format and return a string representation of date and time. It takes in the date, time, or both as an input, and parses it according to the directives given to it.
It is also possible to get the string datetime in yyyy-mm-dd datetime format. yyyy-mm-dd stands for year-month-day. We can convert string format to DateTime by using the strptime() function. We will use the '%Y/%m/%d' format to get the string to datetime.
You can parse the microseconds:
from datetime import datetime
date_posted = '2014-01-15T01:35:30.314Z'
datetime.strptime(date_posted, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ')
One option is to let dateutil do the job:
>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> parser.parse('2014-01-15T01:35:30.314Z')
datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 15, 1, 35, 30, 314000, tzinfo=tzutc())
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