[python] Convert string into Date type on Python

I have this string:

'2012-02-10' # (year-month-day)

and I need it to be as date type for me to use the date function isoweekday().

Does anyone know how I can convert this string into a date?

While it seems the question was answered per the OP's request, none of the answers give a good way to get a datetime.date object instead of a datetime.datetime. So for those searching and finding this thread:

datetime.date has no .strptime method; use the one on datetime.datetime instead and then call .date() on it to receive the datetime.date object.

Like so:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('2014-12-04', '%Y-%m-%d').date()
datetime.date(2014, 12, 4)

Use datetime.datetime.strptime:

>>> import datetime
>>> date = datetime.datetime.strptime('2012-02-10', '%Y-%m-%d')
>>> date.isoweekday()
5

from datetime import datetime

a = datetime.strptime(f, "%Y-%m-%d")

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> year, month, day = map(int, my_date.split('-'))
>>> date_object = datetime(year, month, day)