Python - Datetime format with underscore

Question

I've declared date as a string like this,

from_date = '2018_04_01'

and converted it into datetime format,

from_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(str(from_date), "%Y_%m_%d")

the from date now is formatted as,

2018-04-01

I want the from date with underscore, and in datetime format.

strftime would return the required format but in string. This could be again formatted to a datetime format - this is the worst possible and cumbersome way to do it.

Answer 1

You mean something like this ?

from datetime import datetime, date

print "{:%Y_%m_%d}".format(datetime.now())