Converting DD MM YYYY into YYYY-MM-DD?

[Ben Finney]

Jonathan Gardner <jgardner at jonathangardner.net> writes:

> Unfortunately, there isn't any string to date parsers in the built-
> ins.

Fortunately, Python 2.5 or later has the ‘datetime.strptime’ function.

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