How to convert string to datetime in python [duplicate]

Question

I have a date string in following format 2011-03-07 how to convert this to datetime in python?

Answer 1

Try the following code, which uses strptime from the datetime module:

from datetime import datetime
datetime.strptime('2011-03-07','%Y-%m-%d')

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