Convert String into DateTime in Python

In order to convert a string into datetime you will need to import the DateTime module.

from datetime import datetime

Next, let's create a string variable that contains the date in any valid date format.

str_date = "2023-03-07 01:30:00"

Next, we need to create a format string for the DateTime format that we are dealing with here, the following table is really handy for decoding the date format into the respective format string. I will highly recommend you bookmark this page.

Read More: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes

So, our date time format string is as below based on the table,

date_format_str = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

We will make use of the method strptime() from datetime module to get the DateTime object.

datetime.strptime(str_date, date_format_str)

'''
 Converting Python String 
 into DateTime Object
 By: Code2care.org
'''
from datetime import datetime

str_date = "2023-03-07 01:30:00"
date_format_str = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

datetime_object = datetime.strptime(str_date, date_format_str)

print(datetime_object)

2023-03-07 01:30:00