Reformatting dates in python

Question

I'm stuck with this python problem, I have a date in the format of month-day-year and I need to change it to year-month-day format

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10985312/parsing-date-string-in-python-convert-string-to-date — Freek Wiekmeijer, Jun 03 '15 at 05:55
possible duplicate of [Parse date string and change format](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2265357/parse-date-string-and-change-format) — Gurupad Hegde, Jun 03 '15 at 06:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 03 '15 at 05:55

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime("06/03/2015", "%m/%d/%Y").strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
'2015-06-03'

This takes a date (June 3, 2015 in this case) as a string and parses it to a datetime object using strptime. It then converts that to a string in the format you requested (YYYY-mm-dd) using strftime

Reformatting dates in python

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