Convert date to datetime in Python

Question

Is there a built-in method for converting a date to a datetime in Python, for example getting the datetime for the midnight of the giv

Answer 1

I am a newbie to Python. But this code worked for me which converts the specified input I provide to datetime. Here's the code. Correct me if I'm wrong.

import sys
from datetime import datetime
from time import mktime, strptime

user_date = '02/15/1989'
if user_date is not None:
     user_date = datetime.strptime(user_date,"%m/%d/%Y")
else:
     user_date = datetime.now()
print user_date