Parse date string and change format

Question

I have a date string with the format \'Mon Feb 15 2010\'. I want to change the format to \'15/02/2010\'. How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can install the dateutil library. Its parse function can figure out what format a string is in without having to specify the format like you do with datetime.strptime.

from dateutil.parser import parse
dt = parse('Mon Feb 15 2010')
print(dt)
# datetime.datetime(2010, 2, 15, 0, 0)
print(dt.strftime('%d/%m/%Y'))
# 15/02/2010