How do I turn this date into a python datetime object?

Question

I want a datetime object, but I have strings in this format:

2010-10-06T08:12:41Z

How do I turn that into a datetime object?

Search. That's how it's done. Your question has been asked. And asked. — S.Lott, Oct 06 '11 at 19:16
possible duplicate of [Retrieving a date from a complex string in Python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7070175/retrieving-a-date-from-a-complex-string-in-python) — S.Lott, Oct 06 '11 at 19:16
Also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2265357/parse-date-and-format-it-using-python and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1713594/parsing-dates-and-times-from-strings-using-python are pretty good duplicates of this. — S.Lott, Oct 06 '11 at 19:18

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '11 at 19:18

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from datetime import datetime
print datetime.strptime(timestring, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

answered Oct 06 '11 at 19:18

knitti

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 06 '11 at 19:19

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import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime("2010-10-06T08:12:41Z", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")

answered Oct 06 '11 at 19:19

Kasapo

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