how to convert date '2020-08-21', into this format 2020-08-21T00:00:00-07:00?

Question

I need to convert command line argument date from '2020-08-20' format to '2020-08-21T00:00:00-07:00' format?

I tried

from datetime import datetime

datetime.strptime(start_date, "%Y-%m-%d").date()

Answer 1

Try this:

from datetime import datetime
datetime.strptime(start_date, '%Y-%m-%d').isoformat()

Python version: 3.8