Fix Python – Parse date string and change format

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Asked By – Nimmy

I have a date string with the format ‘Mon Feb 15 2010′. I want to change the format to ’15/02/2010’. How can I do this?

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datetime module could help you with that:

datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, format1).strftime(format2)

For the specific example you could do

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('Mon Feb 15 2010', '%a %b %d %Y').strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
'15/02/2010'
>>>

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