Parse date string and change format

Question

I have a date string with the format \'Mon Feb 15 2010\'. I want to change the format to \'15/02/2010\'. How can I do this?

Answer 1

>>> from_date="Mon Feb 15 2010"
>>> import time                
>>> conv=time.strptime(from_date,"%a %b %d %Y")
>>> time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y",conv)
'15/02/2010'

Answer 2

@codeling and @user1767754 : The following two lines will work. I saw no one posted the complete solution for the example problem that was asked. Hopefully this is enough explanation.

import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.strptime("Mon Feb 15 2010", "%a %b %d %Y").strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
print(x)

Output:

15/02/2010

Answer 3

use datetime library http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html look up 9.1.7. especiall strptime() strftime() Behavior¶ examples http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/datesandtimes.html