Parsing time string in Python

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I have a date time string that I don t know how to parse it in Python   The string is like this   Tue May 08 15 14 45  0800 2012   I tried   datetime strptime  Tue May 08 15 14 45  0800 2012    a  b  d  H  M  S  z  Y     but Python raises    z  is a bad directive in format   a  b  d  H  M  S  z  Y    According to Python doc       z    UTC offset in the form  HHMM or -HHMM  empty string if the the object is naive     What is the right format to parse this time string

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Your best bet is to have a look at strptime    Something along the lines of   gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  date str    Tue May 08 15 14 45  0800 2012   gt  gt  gt  date   datetime strptime date str    a  B  d  H  M  S  0800  Y    gt  gt  gt  date datetime datetime 2012  5  8  15  14  45    Im not sure how to do the  0800 timezone unfortunately  maybe someone else can help out with that   The formatting strings can be found at http   docs python org library time html time strftime and are the same for formatting the string for printing   Hope that helps  Mark  PS  Your best bet for timezones in installing pytz from pypi    http   pytz sourceforge net    in fact I think pytz has a great datetime parsing method if i remember correctly  The standard lib is a little thin on the ground with timezone functionality

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In  117   datetime datetime strptime  Type            builtin function or method Base Class       lt type  builtin function or method  gt  String Form      lt built-in method strptime of type object at 0x9a2520 gt  Namespace       Interactive Docstring      string  format - gt  new datetime parsed from a string  like time strptime

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Here s a stdlib solution that supports a variable utc offset in the input time string    gt  gt  gt  from email utils import parsedate tz  mktime tz  gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  timedelta  gt  gt  gt  timestamp   mktime tz parsedate tz  Tue May 08 15 14 45  0800 2012     gt  gt  gt  utc time   datetime 1970  1  1    timedelta seconds timestamp   gt  gt  gt  utc time datetime datetime 2012  5  8  7  14  45

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datetime datetime strptime has problems with timezone parsing  Have a look at the dateutil package   gt  gt  gt  from dateutil import parser  gt  gt  gt  parser parse  quot Tue May 08 15 14 45  0800 2012 quot   datetime datetime 2012  5  8  15  14  45  tzinfo tzoffset None  28800

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It has discussed many times in SO  In short    z  is not supported because platform not support it  My solution is a new one  just skip the time zone        datetime datetime strptime re sub r   -   0-9           Tue May 08 15 14 45  0800 2012     a  b  d  H  M  S  Y

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