I've got a huge list of date-times like this as strings:
Jun 1 2005 1:33PM
Aug 28 1999 12:00AM
I'm going to be shoving these back into proper datetime fields in a database so I need to magic them into real datetime objects.
This is going through Django's ORM so I can't use SQL to do the conversion on insert.
datetime.strptime is the main routine for parsing strings into datetimes. It can handle all sorts of formats, with the format determined by a format string you give it:
from datetime import datetime
datetime_object = datetime.strptime('Jun 1 2005 1:33PM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')
The resulting datetime object is timezone-naive.
Links:
Python documentation for strptime/strftime format strings: Python 2, Python 3
strftime.org is also a really nice reference for strftime
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