Convert String with month name to datetime

Question

I\'m using pickadate.js which returns the date in this format:

8 March, 2017

I would like to convert this to the dateti

Answer 1

Mark Reed's advice might be best in your case. One frequently overlooked alternative for dates is the arrow module, which offers some interesting features. In this case you can do:

>>> import arrow
>>> arrow.get('8 March, 2017', 'D MMMM, YYYY').format('YYYY-MM-DD')
'2017-03-08'

As an example of a feature, if you capture that date you could format it in Russian.

>>> aDate = arrow.get('8 March, 2017', 'D MMMM, YYYY')
>>> aDate.format('YYYY MMMM DD', locale='ru')
'2017 марта 08'