ValueError trying to format a date with datetime.strptime in python

Question

If I do this:

dss = datetime.date.today()
print dss.strftime('%d/%m/%y %I:%M %p')

I get: 12/03/13 12:00 AM

But, if I do:

print datetime.datetime.strptime("10/25/09 03:01 AM",'%d/%m/%y %I:%M %p')

I get

ValueError: time data '10/25/09 03:01 AM' does not match format  '%d/%m/%y %I:%M %p'

What am I overlooking?

lxop · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-13 03:54:12Z

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You are giving a date in m/d/y format when the required format is d/m/y. It is having trouble converting 25 to a month

answered Mar 13, 2013 at 3:54

lxop

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Ouch! Thanks a lot. I guess I needed that second pair of eyes.

Third pair. I missed it too :). It's too bad that datetime doesn't give a more instructive error here ...