Python datetime.strptime month specifier doesn't seem to work

Question

The month format specifier doesn\'t seem to work.

from datetime import datetime
endDate = datetime.strptime(\'10 3 2011\', \'%j %m %Y\')
print endDate
2011-0         


        

Answer 1

You can't mix the %j with others format code like %m because if you look in the table that you linked %j is the Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366] so 10 correspondent to the 10 day of the year so it's 01 of January ...

So you have just to write :

>>> datetime.strptime('10 2011', '%j %Y')
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 10, 0, 0)

Else if you you wanted to use 10 as the day of the mount you should do :

>>> datetime.strptime('10 3 2011', '%d %m %Y')
datetime.datetime(2011, 3, 10, 0, 0)