Parsing non-zero padded timestamps in Python

Question

I want to get datetimes from timestamps like the following :3/1/2014 9:55 with datetime.strptime, or something equivalent.

The month, day o

Answer 1

strptime isdo not require 0-padded values. See example below

datetime.strptime("3/1/2014 9:55", "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M")
output:   datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 1, 9, 55)