Django string to date format

Question

I want to convert my string date to django date format. I tried a method. but did not work.

date = datetime.datetime.strptime(request.POST.get('date'),"Y-mm-dd").date() 

I got this error.

time data '2014-04-07' does not match format 'Y-mm-dd' 

what 's wrong in my code.

Answer 1

It should be %Y-%m-%d:

>>> s = "2014-04-07" >>> datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d").date() datetime.date(2014, 4, 7) 

According to the documentation:

• %Y stands for a year with century as a decimal number
• %m - month as a zero-padded decimal number
• %d - day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

It might be convenient to use django's dateparse in this case.

from django.utils.dateparse import parse_date date_str = request.POST.get('date') date = parse_date(date_str)