import time t = time.ctime()
For me at the moment, t
is 'Sat Apr 21 11:58:02 2012'
. I have more data like this.
My question is:
- How to convert
t
todatetime
in Python? Are there any modules to to it?
I tried to make a time dict
and then convert t
, but feel like that’s not the best way to do it in Python.
Details:
- I have a
ctime
list (like['Sat Apr 21 11:56:48 2012', 'Sat Apr 21 11:56:48 2012']
). - I want to convert the contents to
datetime
, then store that in adb
withtimestamp
.
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Answer
You should use strptime
: this function parses a string representing a time according to a format. The return value is a struct_time.
The format parameter defaults to %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y
which matches the formatting returned by ctime().
So in your case just try the following line, since the default format is the one from ctime:
import datetime import time datetime.datetime.strptime(time.ctime(), "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
Returns: datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 21, 4, 22, 00)