Django: Convert string to datetime object

Question

Here is the datetime string: dt = '2016-04-07 23:00:00'

I have tried datetime.strptime(year+"-"+day+"-"+month+" "+hour+":"+mins+":"+"00", '%Y-%d-%m %H:%M:%S') but I get this error:

type object 'datetime.datetime' has no attribute 'datetime'

Possible duplicate of [Converting string to datetime object in python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2609259/converting-string-to-datetime-object-in-python) — trinchet, Jun 01 '16 at 11:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '19 at 19:47

1

from dateutil import parser



date_string = '2016-04-07 23:00:00'
date_object = parser.parse(date_string)

answered Feb 06 '19 at 19:47

Phares

It should be noted that dateutil is a 3rd party package, and requires an install – diek Oct 19 '20 at 05:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '16 at 10:34

0

change

from datetime import datetime

to

import datetime

and try this. hope this helps..

import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime(dt, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

answered Jun 01 '16 at 10:34

SuperNova

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