If I have lets say this string "2008-12-12 19:21:10" how can I convert it into a date and get the year, month and day from that created object separately?
asked Sep 14, 2012 at 18:49
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Use the datetime.datetime.strptime[]
function:
from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime.strptime[datestring, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S']
Now you have a datetime.datetime object, and it has .year, .month and .day attributes:
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datestring = "2008-12-12 19:21:10"
>>> dt = datetime.strptime[datestring, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S']
>>> print dt.year, dt.month, dt.day
2008 12 12
answered Sep 14, 2012 at 18:50
Martijn Pieters♦Martijn Pieters
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//www.tutorialspoint.com/python/time_strptime.htm Here you can find strptime[] method complete description. where you can find all type of strings. Eg:- To convert string like this '15-MAY-12'
>>>from datetime import datetime
>>>datestring = "15-MAY-12"
>>>dt = datetime.strptime[datestring, '%d-%b-%Y']
>>>print[dt.year, dt.month, dt.day]
2012 MAY 15
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answered Jun 26, 2017 at 18:36
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with milliseconds
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datestring = "2018-04-11 23:36:18.886585"
>>> dt = datetime.strptime[datestring, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f']
>>> print dt.year, dt.month, dt.day
2018 04 11
answered Apr 12, 2018 at 6:40
One thing to add; pay attention that %y is for two digit
year notation %Y is for the four digit one:
import datetime
datestring = '15-MAY-12'
print[datetime.datetime.strptime[datestring, '%d-%b-%y']]
>>> datetime.datetime[2012, 5, 15, 0, 0]
datestring = '15-MAY-2012'
print[datetime.datetime.strptime[datestring, '%d-%b-%Y']]
>>> datetime.datetime[2012, 5, 15, 0, 0]
answered Jun 20, 2018 at 21:51
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In this article, we will learn how to get the year from a given date in Python. We will use the built-in module available for getting date and time information and some custom codes as well to see them working. Let's first have a quick look over what are dates in Python.
Python Date
In Python, we can work on Date functions by importing a built-in module datetime available in Python. We have date objects to work with dates. This datetime module contains dates in the form of year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and microsecond. The datetime module has many methods to
return information about the date object. It requires date, month, and year values to compute the function. Date and time functions are compared like mathematical expressions between various numbers.
There are various ways in which we can get the year. We can get a year from a given input date, current date using date object. We will import date class from datetime module and will print the output. Look at the examples below.
Example: Get Year from the given Date
In this
example, we import datetime module. Using datetime object, we applied today[] function to extract the current date and then year[] to get only the year from the current date.
import datetime
year = datetime.datetime.today[].year
print[year]
2021
Example: Get Year from the given Date Using now[] Function
In this example, we import datetime module. Using datetime object, we applied now[] function to extract the current date first and then year[] to get only the year from the current date.
import datetime
year = datetime.datetime.now[].year
print[year]
2021
Conclusion
In this article, we learned to get the year from the current date using two datetime functions. We used now[].year[] and today[].year[] to extract the year from the current date. We saw two examples of the implementation of these two functions.