Convert UTC time to python datetime

Question

I have numerous UTC time stamps in the following format: 2012-04-30T23:08:56+00:00 I want to convert them to python datetime objects but am having trouble.

Answer 1

I highly recommend python-dateutil library, it allows conversion of multiple datetime formats from raw strings into datetime objects with/without timezone set

>>> from dateutil.parser import parse
>>> parse('2012-04-30T23:08:56+00:00')

datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 30, 23, 8, 56, tzinfo=tzutc())