How to remove seconds from datetime?

Question

I have the following date and I tried the following code,

df[\'start_date_time\'] = [\"2016-05-19 08:25:00\",\"2016-05-19 16:00:00\",\"2016-05-20 07:45:00\",\"20         


        

Answer 1

As you mentioned removed so I assumed you don't want the seconds or microsecond in the result.If this is the case then following might help:

datetime_variable.strftime("'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'")

If you have datetime in string then you can convert it in datetime obj:

from dateutil import parser

datetime_variable = parser.parse(str_datetime_var)

datetime_variable.strftime("'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'")