How to get month and year from date

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I have a date in this format - 2020-01-31T00:00:00.000Z, this is coming from an API. How do I get the month (e.g. April) and year (e.g. 2020) from this date using the datetime module?

python-3.x datetime python
2 Answers

I would suggest you to use the dateutil package to parse ISO 8601 dates.

>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> parser.isoparse('2020-01-31T00:00:00.000Z')
datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 31, 0, 0, tzinfo=tzutc())

Then you can retrieve the month and year from the datetime object it returns.

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If you want to do using datetime module you can do this as 

from datetime import datetime
input_dt = '2020-01-31T00:00:00.000Z'
dt_object = datetime.strptime(input_dt, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fz")

Now you can do

dt_object.year
dt_object.day
dt_object.month

The strptime() method creates a datetime object from the given string.

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