converting date

[Clayton Munsamy]

Hi Guys

I have a date in string format that i need to convert into date format

Eg: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:15:34 -0400

i need to convert it to a normal date and time format eg: 2011-07-29 08:15:34 -0400

i am new to python can you please assist me

[bvdet]

It can be done like this:

>>> s = 'Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:15:34 -0400'
>>> s.split()
['Fri,', '29', 'Jul', '2011', '08:15:34', '-0400']
>>> import time
>>> t = time.strptime(' '.join(s.split()[:4]), '%a, %d %b %Y')
>>> s1 = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d ", t)+ " ".join(s.split()[4:])
>>> s1
'2011-07-29 08:15:34 -0400'
>>>