how to convert string to date without time in python

Question

I am converting a string to date like this:

date=request.GET.get('date','')
    if date:
        date = datetime.strptime(date, "%m/%d/%Y")
        print date

This prints:

2014-08-08 00:00:00

How can I get the date without the 00:00:00 time?

Answer 1

You have a "datetime" object, hence the time part.

As @jonrsharpe mentioned in his comment, it's

print date.date() (output in ISO format)

or print date.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')

in your given input format.