Converting string into datetime

datetime.strptime is the main routine for parsing strings into datetimes. It can handle all sorts of formats, with the format determined by a format string you give it: The resulting datetime object is timezone-naive. Links: Python documentation for strptime: Python 2, Python 3 Python documentation for strptime/strftime format strings: Python 2, Python 3 strftime.org is … Read more

Python random function

import random imports the random module, which contains a variety of things to do with random number generation. Among these is the random() function, which generates random numbers between 0 and 1. Doing the import this way this requires you to use the syntax random.random(). The random function can also be imported from the module … Read more