Remove timestamp from date string in Python

Question

I have situation where I should ignore the timestamp in a date string. I have tried the below command but with no luck.

"start" variable used below is in AbsTime (Ex: 01MAY2017 11:45) and not a string.

start_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(start, '%d%^b%Y').date()
print start_date

My output should be :

01MAY2017 or 01MAY2017 00:00

Could any one help me.

Answer 1

Your directives are slightly off, and you need to capture all the contents (irrespective of what you want to retain).

start_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(start, '%d%b%Y %H:%M').date()
print start_date.strftime('%d%b%Y')
# '01May2017'

Update - Adding complete code below:

import datetime
start = '01MAY2017 11:45'
start_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(start, '%d%b%Y %H:%M').date()
print start_date.strftime('%d%b%Y')
# 01May2017