Display Python datetime without time

Question

I have a date string and want to convert it to the date type:

I have tried to use datetime.datetime.strptime with the format that I want but it is returning the time with the conversion.

    when = alldates[int(daypos[0])]     print when, type(when)      then = datetime.datetime.strptime(when, '%Y-%m-%d')     print then, type(then) 

This is what the output returns:

   2013-05-07 <type 'str'>    2013-05-07 00:00:00 <type 'datetime.datetime'> 

I need to remove the the time: 00:00:00.

Answer 1

print then.date() 

What you want is a datetime.date object. What you have is a datetime.datetime object. You can either change the object when you print as per above, or do the following when creating the object:

then = datetime.datetime.strptime(when, '%Y-%m-%d').date()