convert a string to a date in python

To convert a string to a date in Python, you can use the datetime module. Specifically, you can use the strptime() method to parse a string into a datetime.datetime object.

Here's an example code snippet that illustrates the conversion:

main.py
import datetime

date_string = '2022-08-17'  # example string with date in ISO 8601 format
date_format = '%Y-%m-%d'    # format string for the input string

date_object = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, date_format).date()

print(date_object)
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In this example, the date_string variable contains the input string, which represents a date in ISO 8601 format (i.e., YYYY-MM-DD). The date_format variable specifies the expected format of the input string using format codes such as %Y for the year, %m for the month, and %d for the day.

The datetime.datetime.strptime() method parses the input string into a datetime.datetime object, which is then converted to a datetime.date object using the .date() method. The resulting date_object can be used for further processing or output.