Easiest way to combine date and time strings to single datetime object using Python

Question

I have a web form which has 2 input fields, \"StartDate\" and \"StartTime\". I convert the StartDate field\'s string into a Python datetime object

Answer 1

Use datetime.combine:

import datetime as dt
mytime = dt.datetime.strptime('0130','%H%M').time()
mydatetime = dt.datetime.combine(dt.date.today(), mytime)