Change string format (date)

Question

I need to create a function that receives string yyyy-mm-dd and it returns the string as dd-mm-yyyy.

For example,

Sample input: 2020-02-10

Expected output: 10-02-2020

Answer 1

maybe you can do that

import datetime

date = '2020-02-10'
date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date,"%Y-%m-%d").strftime("%d-%m-%Y")
print(date)

>>> 10-02-2020

Answer 2

You don't even need datetime utils. Some simple str manipulation will do:

def convert(datestr):
    return "-".join(reversed(datestr.split("-")))

convert("2020-02-10")
# '10-02-2020'

Some documentation:

• str.split
• str.join
• reversed

Answer 3

if you don't want to use any libraries:

date  = 'yyyy-mm-dd'

def reverse_date(date):
    return '-'.join(date.split('-')[::-1])

Answer 4

Try with:

OldDate = '2020-02-10'
NewDate = OldDate.dt.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')

It would print the date in the form you want.