How to transfer unicode to datetime in python?

Question

I dumps a datetime object into to json object and I get:

a = u'2015-02-17T15:06:23.869000'

How to transfer it back to a datetime object?

Checkout datetime.strftime in the standard library datetime module. — Daniel Timberlake, Feb 17 '15 at 07:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '15 at 07:28

You can use the following code:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(u"2015-02-17T15:06:23.869000", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f")
datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 17, 15, 6, 23, 869000)

to parse it back to a datetime object. JSON has no special representation for a datetime object, so your program encodes it as a string.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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One option is to let dateutil do the job:

>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> a = u'2015-02-17T15:06:23.869000' 
>>> parser.parse(a)
datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 17, 15, 6, 23, 869000)

you could also look for some reference here Convert unicode to datetime proper strptime format

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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