Modifying a date format

[jehoshua]

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?

Thank you. I tried to incorporate the code you supplied and have it process the file

from datetime import datetime

f = open("ANCU.qif","r")
lines = f.readlines()

for line in lines:

    for index, item in enumerate(line):
        if index == 0:
            month = item.lstrip("D")
            month = "D" + str(f"{int(month):02d}")
        elif index == 1:
            day = str(f"{int(item):02d}")
        else:
            year = item.rstrip("\n")

date = f"{month}/{day}/{year}"
print(date)

# closing the file
f.close()

Output:
python3 search_replace_2.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/********/VirtualBox VMs/search_replace_2.py", line 12, in <module>
    month = "D" + str(f"{int(month):02d}")
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '!'

but obviously a string data type problem.