Value Error: Format does not match while converting string to datime.date?

Question

I am converting the following string 2020-02-14 20:56:00 to datetime.date format. But am getting the following error:

ValueError: time data '2020-02-14 20:56:00' does not match format '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'

Here is the code I am using:

from datetime import datetime 
date_and_time = '2020-02-14 20:56:00'
date_and_time = datetime.strptime(date_and_time, '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S')

What am I doing wrong here?

Shubham Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-16 05:49:51Z

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The ValueError specifies the use of incorrect format string.
To resolve this error you have to replace / with -.
Here is correct code:

from datetime import datetime 
date_and_time = '2020-02-14 20:56:00'
date_and_time = datetime.strptime(date_and_time, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

Hope it helps you:)

answered Feb 16, 2020 at 5:49

Shubham Sharma

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