Datetime string reformatting

[Mark Lawrence]

On 22/12/2013 10:58, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, ALL,
> I am trying to comprehend what is required to get a successful processing. ;-)
> My script receives a data from the csv file. In this csv file there is
> a datetime field.
> This datetime field is formatted as follows: %m/%d/%Y
> %H:%M:%S.{milliseconds}. I'm reading this field into the string with
> this format.
>
> The trouble comes from the fact that I need to insert this value into
> mySQL. Doing it directly gives me an error: "Incorrect formatting".
> After a bit of googling and trial I found out that mySQL is looking
> for the format of '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S.{milliseconds}.
>
> There is a mySQL function which transfers the data into the proper
> format: STR_TO_DATE(), but I can't obviously call it since it is not
> known to Python.
>
> Now obviously there should be a possibility to reformat this string.
> I guess I can try to do:
>
> mydate = date(mydate_from_csv)
> text = mydate.format()
>
> but this feels like an ugly hack.
>
> Is there a better alternative?
>
> Thank you.
>

Round trip the data using these 
http://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior or 
use string slicing and dicing.

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Mark Lawrence