Formatting a date time string read from a csv file

[DosAtPython]

L.S.,

I'm rather new to python-programming. I'm trying to remove the time info from a date time string read from a csv-file. My impression is that to achieve this, I have to use the strptime() function.

The test-script i'm using:

from datetime import datetime

my_datetime ='2023-06-15 07:26:50'
my_date = datetime.strptime(my_datetime, '%Y-%m-%d' )
print(my_date)

The error message I get in line 4:

Error:
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/_strptime.py", line 352, in _strptime
    raise ValueError("unconverted data remains: %s" %
ValueError: unconverted data remains:  07:26:50

What I want to achieve is that 'my_date' contains the string '2023-06-15' without the time info of 'my_datetime'.

Who can help me with this issue?
Thanks in advance

[rob101]

Why not simply use the .date() method?

from datetime import datetime

today = datetime.today()
date = today.date()
print(today, type(today))
print(date, type(date))
date = str(date)
print(date, type(date))

Output:
2023-06-19 13:01:48.271420 <class 'datetime.datetime'>
2023-06-19 <class 'datetime.date'>
2023-06-19 <class 'str'>

[DosAtPython]

This date string is just what is read from the csv file:

my_datetime ='2023-06-15 07:26:50'.

I cannot change that and choose my 'own' format, I just have to remove the time info form de string.

[rob101]

Okay. In that case, you can use string slicing:

my_datetime = '2023-06-15 07:26:50'

my_date = my_datetime[0:10]

print(my_date)

Output:
2023-06-15

[Gribouillis]

>>> from datetime import datetime
my_datetime ='2023-06-15 07:26:50'
>>> my_date = datetime.strptime(my_datetime, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').date()
>>> my_date
datetime.date(2023, 6, 15)
>>> my_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
'2023-06-15'

Also if you only want the string

>>> my_datetime ='2023-06-15 07:26:50'
>>> my_datetime.split()[0]
'2023-06-15'

[DosAtPython]

Okay. In that case, you can use string slicing:

my_datetime = '2023-06-15 07:26:50'

my_date = my_datetime[0:10]

print(my_date)

Output:
2023-06-15

Thanks. Works.