Why is datetime.strptime not working in this simple example?
You should be using datetime.datetime.strptime. Note that very old versions of Python (2.4 and older) don't have datetime.datetime.strptime; use time.strptime in that case.
You are importing the module datetime, which doesn't have a strptime function.
That module does have a datetime object with that method though:
import datetimedtDate = datetime.datetime.strptime(sDate, "%m/%d/%Y")Alternatively you can import the datetime object from the module:
from datetime import datetimedtDate = datetime.strptime(sDate, "%m/%d/%Y")Note that the strptime method was added in python 2.5; if you are using an older version use the following code instead:
import datetime, timedtDate = datetime.datetime(*time.strptime(sDate, "%m/%d/%Y")[:6])
Because datetime is the module. The class is datetime.datetime.
import datetimedtDate = datetime.datetime.strptime(sDate,"%m/%d/%Y")