Python. Converting string into datetime throws ValueError [duplicate]

Question

I have the string:

import datetime
time = "2016-02-01 19:14:54+02:00"

And trying to convert it to datetime obj:

result = datetime.datetime.strptime(time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z")

It throws exception:

ValueError: time data '2016-02-01 19:14:54+02:00' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z'

Could you please help me what is wrong here?

Answer 1

Timezone offset %z should not have : between hours and minutes according to the python strptime specification.

>>>> datetime.datetime.strptime("2016-02-01 19:14:54+02:00", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z")
ValueError: time data '2016-02-01 19:14:54+02:00' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z'

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime("2016-02-01 19:14:54+0200", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z")
datetime.datetime(2016, 2, 1, 19, 14, 54, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0, 7200)))