Convert UTC time to python datetime

Question

I have numerous UTC time stamps in the following format: 2012-04-30T23:08:56+00:00 I want to convert them to python datetime objects but am having trouble.

Answer 1

Change the year marker in your time format string to %Y:

time = '2012-03-01T00:05:55+00:00'
datetime.strptime(time, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00")
# => datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 1, 0, 5, 55)

See strftime() and strptime() behavior.