Parsing string to datetime while accounting for AM/PM in pandas

Question

I am trying to parse a string in this format \"2018 - 07 - 07 04 - AM\" to pandas datetime using strftime format. However, It seems to me the format doesn\'

Answer 1

In my case, I got an error message when trying the proposed solutions:

 ValueError: unconverted data remains: PM

This was solved by setting the locale to en_US.