Parse rfc3339 date strings in Python?
date, datetime-parsing, python, rfc3339
Solution
You can use `dateutil.parser.parse` (install with `python -m pip install python-dateutil`) to parse strings into datetime objects.
`dateutil.parser.parse` will attempt to guess the format of your string, if you know the exact format in advance then you can use `datetime.strptime` which you supply a format string to (see Brent Washburne's answer).
from dateutil.parser import parse
a = "2012-10-09T19:00:55Z"
b = parse(a)
print(b.weekday())
# 1 (equal to a Tuesday)
Problem
I have a datasets where all the dates have the following format: ``` 2012-10-09T19:00:55Z ``` I'd like to be able to be able to use methods like `.weekday` on them. How do I convert them to the proper format in Python?