I'm getting a date as a string, then I'm parsing it to datetime object. Is there any way to check what's is the date format of the object? Show
Let's say that this is the object that I'm creating:
How can i print or get the exact date format of this object, i need this in order to verify that it's in the correct format, so I'll be able to to make a diff of today's date and the given date.
wim 312k95 gold badges570 silver badges709 bronze badges asked Dec 3, 2015 at 18:27
Alex BrodovAlex Brodov 3,26518 gold badges40 silver badges66 bronze badges 7 I had a look in the source code and, unfortunately, python-dateutil doesn't expose the format. In fact it doesn't even generate a guess for the format at all, it just goes ahead and parses - the code is like a big nested spaghetti of conditionals. You could have a look at dateinfer which looks to be what you're searching for, but these are unrelated libraries so there is no guarantee at all that python-dateutil will parse with the same format that dateinfer suggests.
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If you know the expected time format (or a set of valid time formats) then you could just parse the input using it: if it succeeds then the time format is valid (the usual EAFP approach in Python):
Here's a complete code example (in Russian -- ignore the text, look at the code). If there are many valid date formats then to improve time performance you might want to combine them into a single regular expression or convert the regex to a deterministic or non-deterministic finite-state automaton (DFA or NFA). In general, if you need to extract dates from a larger text that is too varied to create parsing rules manually; consider machine learning solutions
e.g., a NER system such as
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jfsjfs 382k181 gold badges946 silver badges1618 bronze badges 4 In different regions of the world, different types of date formats are used and for that reason usually, programming languages provide a number of date formats for the developed to deal with. In Python, it is dealt with by using a liberty called DateTime. It consists of classes and methods that can be used to work with data and time values. Required libraryimport datetime The datetime.time methodTime values can be represented using the time class. The attributes for the time class include the hour, minute, second, and microsecond. Syntax of datetime.timetime(hour, minute, second, microsecond) Example 1: Python3
Output 02:25:50.000013 Example 2: There are ranges for the time attributes i.e for seconds we have the range between 0 to 59 and for nanoseconds, range is between 0 to 999999. If the range exceeds, the compiler shows a ValueError. The instance of time class consists of three instance attributes namely hour, minute, second, and microsecond. These are used to get specific information about the time. Python3
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The datetime.date methodThe values for the calendar date can be represented via the date class. The date instance consists of attributes for the year, month, and day. Syntax of datetime.datedate(yyyy, mm, dd) Example 1: Python3
Output Date date is 12 day of 5 of the year 2018 Example 2: To get today’s date names a method called today() is used and to get all the information in one object (today’s information) ctime() method is used. Python3
Output The date today is 2020-01-30 The date info. is Thu Jan 30 00:00:00 2020 Convert string to date using DateTimeConversion from string to date is many times needed while working with imported data sets from a CSV or when we take inputs from website forms. To do this, Python provides a method called strptime().
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Output 2019-05-05 00:00:00 Convert dates to strings using DateTimeDate and time are different from strings and thus many times it is important to convert the DateTime to string. For this, we use strftime() method. Syntax of datetime.strftime
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Output May 12 2018 02:25:50 Example 2: The same example can also be written in a different place by setting up the print() method. Python3
Output 02:25:50 May 12 2018 %H, %M and %S displays the hour, minutes and seconds respectively. %b, %d and %Y displays 3 characters of the month, day and year respectively. Other than the above example the frequently used character code List along with its functionality are: Frequently used character code in DateTime
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Output Saturday
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Output 132 How do I print date format in Python?We have used the following character strings to format the date:. %b : Returns the first three characters of the month name. ... . %d : Returns day of the month, from 1 to 31. ... . %Y : Returns the year in four-digit format. ... . %H : Returns the hour. ... . %M : Returns the minute, from 00 to 59. ... . %S : Returns the second, from 00 to 59.. What is the format of a date in Python?Use datetime. strftime(format) to convert a datetime object into a string as per the corresponding format . The format codes are standard directives for mentioning in which format you want to represent datetime. For example, the %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S codes convert date to dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss format.
How do I format a date in YYYYIn Python, we can easily format dates and datetime objects with the strftime() function. For example, to format a date as YYYY-MM-DD, pass “%Y-%m-%d” to strftime(). If you want to create a string that is separated by slashes (“/”) instead of dashes (“-“), pass “%Y/%m/%d” to strftime().
How do I check if a date is in mm/dd/yyyy in Python?“how to verify date dd/mm/yyyy python” Code Answer. >>> import datetime.. >>> def validate(date_text):. datetime. datetime. strptime(date_text, '%Y-%m-%d'). except ValueError:. raise ValueError("Incorrect data format, should be YYYY-MM-DD"). How do I get the exact date in Python?Example 1: Python get today's date
Then, we used the date.today() method to get the current local date. By the way, date.today() returns a date object, which is assigned to the today variable in the above program. Now, you can use the strftime() method to create a string representing date in different formats.
How do I change date format in Python?from datetime import datetime.. date_time_str = '18/09/19 01:55:19'. date_time_obj = datetime. strptime(date_time_str, '%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S'). print ("The type of the date is now", type(date_time_obj)). |