Parse Date from string present in multiple formats into datetime format

Question

I have a string which may contain date into any of the below format

20200618
18-june-2020

Could someone please help me in how to obtain the date from the string? Thanks

I am not sure whether there is a library that does it by itself, but if those are the only two formats, you can use regexp to check what is your date's format and then convert it — Yaroslav Fyodorov, Nov 01 '20 at 12:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '20 at 12:37

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dateutil's parser can help:

from dateutil import parser

for d in ["20200618", "18-june-2020"]:
    print(parser.parse(d))
    
2020-06-18 00:00:00
2020-06-18 00:00:00

answered Nov 01 '20 at 12:37

FObersteiner

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