How to get part of string and pass it to other function in python?

Question

My task is to verify whether string is valid date and time or not.

\"2013-01-01W23:01:01\"

The date and the time are separated with

Answer 1

You can try this ,

>>> a="2013-01-01W23:01:01"
>>> a.split('W')
['2013-01-01', '23:01:01']

And then send a.split('W')[0] and a.split('W')[1] to the validation functions.