time data does not match format

Question

I get the following error:

time data \'07/28/2014 18:54:55.099000\' does not match format \'%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f\'

But I cannot see what pa

Answer 1

I had a case where solution was hard to figure out. This is not exactly relevant to particular question, but might help someone looking to solve a case with same error message when strptime is fed with timezone information. In my case, the reason for throwing

ValueError: time data '2016-02-28T08:27:16.000-07:00' does not match format '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z'

was presence of last colon in the timezone part. While in some locales (Russian one, for example) code was able to execute well, in another (English one) it was failing. Removing the last colon helped remedy my situation.