[FIXED] Timezone in python date string is not matching

Issue

In a script, I am converting the date string into DateTime format, so that I can modify the date, but this timezone part is showing an error.

from datetime import datetime
date_str = 'Wed, 1 Jun 2022 16:44:40 +0200 (CEST)'

temp_date = datetime.strptime(date_str, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)')
print(temp_date)

When I run this I am getting ValueEror.

ValueError: time data 'Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:44:40 +0200 (CEST)' does not match format '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)'

Solution

Seeing the complexity of problem, I suggest using third party library like dateutil which can parse datetime with ease.

from dateutil.parser import parse
date_str = 'Wed, 1 Jun 2022 16:44:40 +0200 (CEST)'
temp_date = parse(date_str)
print(temp_date)

temp_date is of type datetime.datetime

https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Answered By - Bijay Regmi