You can use dateutil.parser.parse (install with python -m pip install python-dateutil) to parse strings into datetime objects. dateutil.parser.parse will attempt to guess the format of your string, if you know the exact format in advance then you can use datetime.strptime which you supply a format string to (see Brent Washburne’s answer). from dateutil.parser import parse … Read more
As of Python 3.7, datetime.datetime.fromisoformat() can handle your format: >>> import datetime >>> datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(‘2012-11-01T04:16:13-04:00′) datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 1, 4, 16, 13, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(days=-1, seconds=72000))) In older Python versions you can’t, not without a whole lot of painstaking manual timezone defining. Python does not include a timezone database, because it would be outdated too quickly. Instead, Python relies … Read more
Python 3.7+ As of Python 3.7 there is a method datetime.fromisoformat() which is exactly the reverse for isoformat(). Older Python If you have older Python, then this is the current best “solution” to this question: pip install python-dateutil Then… import datetime import dateutil def getDateTimeFromISO8601String(s): d = dateutil.parser.parse(s) return d
The T doesn’t really stand for anything. It is just the separator that the ISO 8601 combined date-time format requires. You can read it as an abbreviation for Time. The Z stands for the Zero timezone, as it is offset by 0 from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Both characters are just static letters in … Read more
Swift 4 • iOS 11.2.1 or later extension ISO8601DateFormatter { convenience init(_ formatOptions: Options) { self.init() self.formatOptions = formatOptions } } extension Formatter { static let iso8601withFractionalSeconds = ISO8601DateFormatter([.withInternetDateTime, .withFractionalSeconds]) } extension Date { var iso8601withFractionalSeconds: String { return Formatter.iso8601withFractionalSeconds.string(from: self) } } extension String { var iso8601withFractionalSeconds: Date? { return Formatter.iso8601withFractionalSeconds.date(from: self) } } … Read more
isoparse function from python-dateutil The python-dateutil package has dateutil.parser.isoparse to parse not only RFC 3339 datetime strings like the one in the question, but also other ISO 8601 date and time strings that don’t comply with RFC 3339 (such as ones with no UTC offset, or ones that represent only a date). >>> import dateutil.parser … Read more