How to understand strptime vs. strftime

Question

What\'s the difference between strptime and strftime? I see that strptime is a method in the DateTime class, and strfti

Answer 1

strptime means string parser, this will convert a string format to datetime.

Example:-

datetime.strptime('2019-08-09 01:01:01', "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

datetime.datetime(2019, 8, 9, 1, 1, 1)//Result

strftime means string formatter, this will format a datetime object to string format.

Example:-

sample_date=datetime.strptime('2019-08-09 01:01:01', "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

datetime.strftime(sample_date, "%Y-%d-%m %H:%M:%S")

'2019-09-08 01:01:01'//Result