Convert Python Date String mm-dd-yyyy to Datetime

In Python, you can convert a string to date object using the strptime() function. Provide the date string and the format in which the date is specified. 

Example

import datetime
date_str = '29/12/2017' # The date - 29 Dec 2017
format_str = '%d/%m/%Y' # The format
datetime_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_str, format_str)
print(datetime_obj.date())

Output

This will give the output −

2017-12-29