date - Python datetime - setting fixed hour and minute after using strptime to get day,month,year

Question

I've successfully converted something of 26 Sep 2012 format to 26-09-2012 using:

datetime.strptime(request.POST['sample_date'],'%d %b %Y')

However, I don't know how to set the hour and minute of something like the above to 11:59. Does anyone know how to do this?

Note, this can be a future date or any random one, not just the current date.

Answer 1

Use datetime.replace:

from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime.strptime('26 Sep 2012', '%d %b %Y')
newdatetime = dt.replace(hour=11, minute=59)

Also worth noting: datetime.replace returns a new copy of the datetime (since datetime is immutable): it is like str.replace in that regard.