Answer by Rizwan Mumtaz for Convert string "Jun 1 2005 1:33PM" into datetime

Remember this and you didn't need to get confused in datetime conversion again.

String to datetime object = strptime

datetime object to other formats = strftime

Jun 1 2005 1:33PM

is equals to

%b %d %Y %I:%M%p

%b Month as locale’s abbreviated name(Jun)

%d Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number(1)

%Y Year with century as a decimal number(2015)

%I Hour (12-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number(01)

%M Minute as a zero-padded decimal number(33)

%p Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM(PM)

so you need strptime i-e converting string to

>>> dates = []>>> dates.append('Jun 1 2005  1:33PM')>>> dates.append('Aug 28 1999 12:00AM')>>> from datetime import datetime>>> for d in dates:...     date = datetime.strptime(d, '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')...     print type(date)...     print date... 

Output

<type 'datetime.datetime'>2005-06-01 13:33:00<type 'datetime.datetime'>1999-08-28 00:00:00

What if you have different format of dates you can use panda or dateutil.parse

>>> import dateutil>>> dates = []>>> dates.append('12 1 2017')>>> dates.append('1 1 2017')>>> dates.append('1 12 2017')>>> dates.append('June 1 2017 1:30:00AM')>>> [parser.parse(x) for x in dates]

OutPut

[datetime.datetime(2017, 12, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 12, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2017, 6, 1, 1, 30)]