Convert String to Datetime Object

[tkj80]

Hi, 

I have the following

myList[0][0]

Output:
'02/28/2017 21:01:00'

type(myList[0][0])

Output:
<class 'str'>

str_date = myList[0][0]
from datetime import datetime
date_date = datetime.strftime(str_date, "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")

I tried to convert the string object to a datetime object but I got the following error message.

Error:
TypeError: descriptor 'strftime' requires a 'datetime.date' object but received a 'str'

Shouldn't with datetime.strftime method, I would be able to convert the string object to datetime object?

Wonder if someone could please advise.

Thank you!

[Larz60+]

not tested:

datetime.datetime.strptime(date_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f")

[volcano63]

Shouldn't with datetime.strftime method, I would be able to convert the string object to datetime object?

Wonder if someone could please advise.

Thank you!

No, strftime stands for string-from-time
strptime - I would hazard a guess - is string-pparse-to-time