Python: Convert unicode string to MM/DD/YYYY

Question

I have a unicode string for example u'Mar232012'. I want to convert it to the format MM/DD/YYYY using python in the post efficient and reliable manner.

Answer 1

import datetime

datetime.datetime.strptime(u'Mar232012', '%b%d%Y').strftime('%m/%d/%Y')

prints '03/23/2012'