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QUESTION: parameter or method to print the code format of the date

Open diazrm opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Is there a parameter or method to print the code format string that matches the parsed date? For example, in the following code:

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
date_time = now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
print("date and time:",date_time)

You will get:

date and time: 12/21/2021, 22:08:06

So with this code:

dateparser.parse(date_time)

You will get:

datetime.datetime(2021, 12, 21, 22, 08, 06)

Is there a way to run something like this?:

dateparser.get_date_pattern(date_time)

And as a result:

"%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S"

I saw a similar question in Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/33986096/6315428

The purpose? Generate synthetic data for privacy protection, looking to express dates in the same original format, replacing the value with a different one.

diazrm avatar Dec 21 '21 21:12 diazrm