Python strptime finnish

Question

I have a Finnish representation of a date (tiistaina, 27. lokakuuta 2015) that I need to convert to a datetime object. However, the day and month names are not recognis

Answer 1

The days of week and month names are substituted in nominative case for %A and %B respectively; however that date format has DOW in the essive case, and the month in partitive. Declension in Finnish is quite complicated in general case, but for this case, you can suffix a DOW name with na to get the required essive, and ta to the month to get the partitive.

Thus the strptime format '%Ana, %d. %Bta %Y' with the fi_FI locale is guaranteed to work for all your dates:

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('tiistaina, 27. lokakuuta 2015', '%Ana, %d. %Bta %Y')
datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 27, 0, 0)