Django string to date format

Question

I want to convert my string date to django date format. I tried a method. but did not work.

date = datetime.datetime.strptime(request.POST.get(\'date\'),\"         


        

Answer 1

It should be %Y-%m-%d:

>>> s = "2014-04-07"
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
datetime.date(2014, 4, 7)

According to the documentation:

• %Y stands for a year with century as a decimal number
• %m - month as a zero-padded decimal number
• %d - day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number

Hope that helps.