Convert date format python

Question

I have django form and I am receiving from POST a date formated like \"%d/%m/%Y\" and I would like to convert it to \"%Y-%m-%d\", How could I do it?

Answer 1

You can use easy_date to make it easy:

import date_converter
my_datetime = date_converter.string_to_string('02/05/2012', '%d/%m/%Y', '%Y-%m-%d')