string to datetime with fractional seconds, on Google App Engine

Question

I need to convert a string to a datetime object, along with the fractional seconds. I\'m running into various problems.

Normally, i would do:

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Answer 1

All ancient history by now, but in these modern times you can also conveniently use dateutil

from dateutil import parser as DUp

funky_time_str = "1/1/2011 12:51:00.0123 AM"

foo = DUp.parse(funky_time_str)

print foo.timetuple()
# time.struct_time(tm_year=2011, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=51, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)

print foo.microsecond
# 12300

print foo
# 2011-01-01 00:51:00.012300

dateutil supports a surprising variety of possible input formats, which it parses without pattern strings.