convert string to datetime in python [duplicate]

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how to convert time string like '18:30:00' into datetime 开发者_StackOverflow中文版in python?

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Use the datetime.datetime.strptime() method

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My post in Daniweb:
Date string to date object, seconds to readable string

You seem to only consider time part, it is trivial to convert by simple split.

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http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime

That is the best way to do it