strptime

Parse a string representing a time according to a format. The return value is a struct_time as returned by gmtime() or localtime().

Syntax

PYTHON Copy

time.strptime(string[, format])

Examples

Example 1

PYTHON Copy

>>> import time
>>> time.strptime("30 Nov 00", "%d %b %y")
time.struct_time(tm_year=2000, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=30, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0,
                 tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=335, tm_isdst=-1)

See Also

struct_time gmtime() localtime() strftime() ctime() ValueError