Convert a JavaScript Date to a Python date object
In this post you will learn how to convert a JavaScript date format to Python date format. This conversion is needed when you are consuming APIs written in Python and you’d like to convert the date to the Python date format from JavaScript date format.
import datetime
# JavaScript date received
date_string = '2020-10-11'
date_format = '%Y-%m-%d'
try:
date_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, date_format)
print(date_obj)
except ValueError:
print("Incorrect date format, should be YYYY-MM-DD")
