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Jul 16, 2025 · Fundamentals

Master Python DateTime Parsing: Quick Solutions for Complex Formats

This article walks through a common Python datetime parsing problem, presents multiple code solutions with explanations and results, adds a handy UTC‑to‑Beijing conversion function, and provides a reference table for format symbols, helping readers handle date strings confidently.

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Master Python DateTime Parsing: Quick Solutions for Complex Formats

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Jun 11, 2020 · Fundamentals

Understanding and Avoiding Common Mistakes with Python datetime.strptime and strftime

The article explains why Python developers often swap the arguments of datetime.strptime, analyzes the naming and semantics of strptime and strftime, demonstrates correct usage with code examples, and discusses the source‑to‑destination pattern and related special cases such as regex and string methods.

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Understanding and Avoiding Common Mistakes with Python datetime.strptime and strftime