format a date in to the format october 13, 2014 11:13:00 am in python

You can use the strftime() method of the datetime class to format a datetime object into a string with the desired format.

Here's an example:

main.py
from datetime import datetime

date_time_obj = datetime.strptime('2014-10-13 11:13:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
formatted_date = date_time_obj.strftime('%B %d, %Y %I:%M:%S %p')

print(formatted_date)  # output: October 13, 2014 11:13:00 AM
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In this example, we first create a datetime object from a string using the strptime() method with the format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'. This string format represents a date and time in ISO format, with the year, month, and day separated by hyphens, and the time separated by colons.

Then, we use the strftime() method with the format string '%B %d, %Y %I:%M:%S %p' to format the datetime object into a string with the desired format. The '%B' directive specifies the full name of the month, '%d' specifies the day of the month with a leading zero, '%Y' specifies the year in four digits, '%I' specifies the hour in 12-hour format, '%M' specifies the minute, '%S' specifies the second, and '%p' specifies 'AM' or 'PM' in upper case.

Finally, we print the formatted string 'October 13, 2014 11:13:00 AM' to the console.