I'm reading a date from an Excel cell in Python (using `.Value` on the cell)... the result that I get is:

```
07/06/10 00:00:00

```

I thought this was a string, and so went about trying to figure out how to convert this to the format I need ("yyyyMMdd", or "20100706" in this example). However, after some playing around I realized that it is *not* being pulled as a string... Running type() on it returns `<type 'time'>` .

I then assumed that it was a Python time object, and tried using `strftime` on it to convert it to a string... but that didn't work either. It doesn't recognize the `strftime` method on the value. 

Any idea on how to parse this properly and get the format I want? What am I doing wrong? (And if this clearly contains a date as well as a time, why is Python automatically considering it a time object?)