Python’s datetime library, part of its standard library, provides datatypes and methods for working with dates and times. Dates and times are slippery, inconsistent things, however, and ...

Format codes are the key to instructing Python on how to interpret different parts of your date and time strings. These codes, such as %Y for the four-digit year or %d for the day of the month ...

[WIP] Python code for efficiently extracting the datetime format from a string. Background story for this code is explained here. This is a rough, early, seemingly working, still untested ...

The percentage character indicates the beginning of a datetime format code. These codes are the standard C-style ones used in the built-in datetime module for strftime. For a list of standard codes, ...