python - Parse date string and change format

Question

I have a date string with the format 'Mon Feb 15 2010'. I want to change the format to '15/02/2010'. How can I do this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65928776/how-to-extract-date-in-an-appropriate-way-in-python-from-a-text

Answer 1

datetime module could help you with that:

datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, format1).strftime(format2)

For the specific example you could do

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('Mon Feb 15 2010', '%a %b %d %Y').strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
'15/02/2010'
>>>