Python DateUtil Converting string to a date and time
Question: I'm trying to convert a parameter of type string to a date time. I'm using the
dateUtil library

    
    
      from dateutil import parser
    myDate_string="2001/9/1 12:00:03"
    dt = parser.parse(myDate_string,dayfirst=True)
    print dt
    

every time i run this i get

> 2001-09-01 12:00:03

regardless of whether i have dayfirst set as true or Year first set as false.
Ideally I just want to have a date in the format DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS. I don't
want anything fancy. I am willing to use the datetime library but this doesn't
seem to work at all for me. Can anyone give simple expamples of how to convert
strings to date time with an explicit format, I'm a noob, so the most basic
examples are all i require. I'm using Python 2.7


Answer: The problem you're having is that any arguments you pass to parser.parse only
affect how the string is parsed, not how the subsequent object is printed.

parser.parse returns a datetime object - when you print it it will just use
datetime's default __str__ method. If you replace your last line with

    
    
    print dt.strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")
    

it will work as you expect.

