datetime.strptime () throws 'does not match format' error

Question

I get

time data \'19/Apr/2011:22:12:39\' does not match format \'%d/%b/%y:%H:%M:%S\'

when using datetime.strptime(\'19/Apr/2011:22:12:39\

Answer 1

You want %Y instead of %y. %Y means you want the century, %y is no century and the year is displayed from 00 to 99.