5.1.8.1 Creating Datetime Objects from Formatted Strings

The datetime class does not directly support parsing formatted time strings. You can use time.strptime to do the parsing and create a datetime object from the tuple it returns:

>>> s = "2005-12-06T12:13:14"
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from time import strptime
>>> datetime(*strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")[0:6])
datetime.datetime(2005, 12, 6, 12, 13, 14)

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