Python date string to date object

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How do I convert a string to a date object in python    The string would be   24052010   corresponding to the format    d m Y    I don t want a datetime datetime object  but rather a datetime date

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import datetime datetime datetime strptime  24052010     d m Y   date

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Use time module to convert data   Code snippet   import time  tring  20150103040500  var   int time mktime time strptime tring    Y m d H M S     print var

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You can use strptime in the datetime package of Python    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime strptime  24052010     d m Y   date   datetime date 2010  5  24

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Directly related question   What if you have  datetime datetime strptime  2015-02-24T13 00 00-08 00     Y- B- dT H  M  S- H  M   date     and you get   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt    File   usr local lib python2 7  strptime py   line 308  in  strptime     format regex    TimeRE cache compile format    File   usr local lib python2 7  strptime py   line 265  in compile     return re compile self pattern format   IGNORECASE    File   usr local lib python2 7 re py   line 194  in compile     return  compile pattern  flags    File   usr local lib python2 7 re py   line 251  in  compile     raise error  v   invalid expression sre constants error  redefinition of group name  H  as group 7  was group 4   and you tried    lt -24T13 00 00-08 00     Y- B- dT HH  MM  SS- HH  MM   date     but you still get the traceback above    Answer    gt  gt  gt  from dateutil parser import parse  gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  parse  2015-02-24T13 00 00-08 00   datetime datetime 2015  2  24  13  0  tzinfo tzoffset None  -28800

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There is another library called arrow really great to make manipulation on python date   import arrow import datetime  a   arrow get  24052010    DMYYYY   date   print isinstance a  datetime date     True

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you have a date string like this   24052010  and you want date object for this   from datetime import datetime cus date   datetime strptime  24052010     d m Y   date     this cus date will give you date object   you can retrieve date string from your date object using this   cus date strftime   d m Y

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If you are lazy and don t want to fight with string literals  you can just go with the parser module    from dateutil import parser dt   parser parse  Jun 1 2005  1 33PM   print dt year  dt month  dt day dt hour  dt minute  dt second   gt 2005 6 1 13 33 0   Just a side note  as we are trying to match any string representation  it is 10x slower than strptime

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For single value the datetime strptime method is the fastest import arrow from datetime import datetime import pandas as pd  l     24052010     timeit     list map lambda x  datetime strptime x    d m Y   date    l   6 86   s    56 5 ns per loop  mean    std  dev  of 7 runs  100000 loops each    timeit     list map lambda x  x date    pd to datetime l  format   d m Y     305   s    6 32   s per loop  mean    std  dev  of 7 runs  1000 loops each    timeit     list map lambda x  arrow get x   DMYYYY   date    l   46   s    978 ns per loop  mean    std  dev  of 7 runs  10000 loops each   For a list of values the pandas pd to datetime is the fastest l     24052010     1000   timeit     list map lambda x  datetime strptime x    d m Y   date    l   6 32 ms    89 6   s per loop  mean    std  dev  of 7 runs  100 loops each    timeit     list map lambda x  x date    pd to datetime l  format   d m Y     1 76 ms    27 3   s per loop  mean    std  dev  of 7 runs  1000 loops each    timeit     list map lambda x  arrow get x   DMYYYY   date    l   44 5 ms    522   s per loop  mean    std  dev  of 7 runs  10 loops each   For ISO8601 datetime format the ciso8601 is a rocket import ciso8601  l     2010-05-24     1000   timeit     list map lambda x  ciso8601 parse datetime x  date    l   241   s    3 24   s per loop  mean    std  dev  of 7 runs  1000 loops each

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