python - Django string to date format

Question

I want to convert my string date to django date format. I tried a method. but did not work.

date = datetime.datetime.strptime(request.POST.get('date'),"Y-mm-dd").date()

I got this error.

time data '2014-04-07' does not match format 'Y-mm-dd'

what 's wrong in my code.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22918095/django-string-to-date-format

Answer 1

It should be %Y-%m-%d:

>>> s = "2014-04-07"
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
datetime.date(2014, 4, 7)

According to the documentation:

• %Y stands for a year with century as a decimal number
• %m - month as a zero-padded decimal number
• %d - day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number

Hope that helps.