Python timezone '%z' directive for datetime.strptime() not available

Question

Using \'%z\' pattern of datetime.strptime()

I have a string text that represent a date and I\'m perfectly able to parse it and transform it into a clean datetime o

Answer 1

In continue to @j-f-sebastians 's answer, here is a fix for python 2.7

Instead of using:

datetime.strptime(t,'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M %z')

use the timedelta to account for the timezone, like this:

from datetime import datetime,timedelta
def dt_parse(t):
    ret = datetime.strptime(t[0:16],'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M')
    if t[17]=='+':
       ret-=timedelta(hours=int(t[18:20]),minutes=int(t[20:]))
    elif t[17]=='-':
       ret+=timedelta(hours=int(t[18:20]),minutes=int(t[20:]))
    return ret

print(dt_parse('2017-01-12T14:12 -0530'))