Sometimes, we want to translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object.

In this article, we’ll look at how to translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object.

How to translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object?

To translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object, we can use the dateutil parser.parse method.

For instance, we write

from dateutil import parser

your_date = parser.parse(date_string)

to call parser.parse with date_string to convert the ISO 8601 date_string into the your_date datetime object.

Conclusion

To translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object, we can use the dateutil parser.parse method.