python - Convert date format: 2 digit year to 4 digit year

Question

If I have a string that contain a date, like '29/01/21', how can I convert its format to a 4 year digit instead of 2 digits?

'29/01/21'

to

'29/01/2021'

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66052464/convert-date-format-2-digit-year-to-4-digit-year

Answer 1

Pythons datetime library might be helpful.

Please refer below code.

from datetime import datetime

datetime.datetime.strptime('29/01/21', '%d/%m/%y').strftime("%M/%d/%Y")