I’m trying to make it so that it checks if its in the format I want and if its greater than today’s date. I want it to ask for input until it gets a right answer but I can’t find a way to do so. Answer You can use the today class method to get a datetime object representing today’s
Tag: python-datetime
Using datetime.strptime when data is a little messy : extra spaces, Jan or January
Currently the text I am dealing with are dates with a somewhat standard format, however the data isn’t super clean. For example the text can be in these formats: I’m not quite sure how to deal with this. I want to convert these strings into 2021-01-01 format. My plan was to convert to datetime object, and then convert back to
Python 3.9: unpickling of IsoCalendarDate data returns a tuple
Consider the following discussion / feature in Python3.9: https://bugs.python.org/issue24416 In short, it was decided that the result of datetime.date.isocalendar would be changed to a namedtuple instead of tuple. Now, I can see the benefit in doing that, but they also decided “to pickle” the new object (datetime.IsoCalendarDate) as a tuple: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1b97b9b0ad9a2ff8eb5c8f2e2e7c2aec1d13a330#diff-2a8962dcecb109859cedd81ddc5729bea57d156e0947cb8413f99781a0860fd1R1214 So my question is, why did they make it
How to get the EOMONTH(End of month) of the current date using Python3
I have a SQL server stored procedure and I am trying to replicate it using python. One of the things I am trying to replicate is the following function: Here is what I have tried in Python3: Output: The thing is, I have to enter the date (200,3,1). I want to be able to pick up the current date and
Django model DateTimeField set auto_now_add format or modify the serializer
I have this field in my model: And it is saved with this format: 2016-05-18T15:37:36.993048Z So I would like to convert it to this format DATE_INPUT_FORMATS = (‘%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:S’) but I dont know where to do it. I have a simple serializer class, could I override it to modify the format? or maybe create a get_date() model method? My settings:
How to find out week no of the month in python?
I have seen many ways to determine week of the year. Like by giving instruction datetime.date(2016, 2, 14).isocalendar()[1] I get 6 as output. Which means 14th feb 2016 falls under 6th Week of the year. But I couldn’t find any way by which I could find week of the Month. Means IF I give input as some_function(2016,2,16) I should get
timedelta error with numpy.longdouble dtype
I have times with dtype numpy.longdouble and when I’m trying to use that values with timedelta function I’ve got errors. But when I convert it to numpy.float64 everything is fine. Could somebody explain that behaviour? When I’m trying to see dtypes of variables they are look the similar but not the same: Edit And it’s strange that it’s not working
Calculate Time Difference Between Two Pandas Columns in Hours and Minutes
I have two columns, fromdate and todate, in a dataframe. I add a new column, diff, to find the difference between the two dates using I get the diff column, but it contains days, when there’s more than 24 hours. How do I convert my results to only hours and minutes (i.e. days are converted to hours)? Answer Pandas timestamp
How do I determine if current time is within a specified range using Python’s datetime module?
What would be the best way to see if the current time lies between say 10:30 AM and 4:30 PM. I could think of the following, not sure how correct: Please let me know if this the correct approach, can something better be written? Answer My original answer focused very specifically on the question as posed and didn’t accommodate time
Python: how to compute date ranges from a list of dates?
I have a list of dates, for example: How do I find the contiguous date ranges contained within those dates? In the above example, the ranges should be: Thanks. Answer This works, but I’m not happy with it, will work on a cleaner solution an edit the answer. Done, here is a clean, working solution: And the relative output: