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.

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Answer 1

django.utils.dateparse.parse_date function will return None if given date not in %Y-%m-%d format

I have not found a function in django source code to parse string by DATE_INPUT_FORMATS. So I wrote a custom helper function for that and I have added to here for help others.

from datetime import datetime
from django.utils.formats import get_format

def parse_date(date_str):
    """Parse date from string by DATE_INPUT_FORMATS of current language"""
    for item in get_format('DATE_INPUT_FORMATS'):
        try:
            return datetime.strptime(date_str, item).date()
        except (ValueError, TypeError):
            continue

    return None