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Date string to datetime object

You've already turned a datetime object into a formatted string with 'strftime' but now, in order to transform a date string into a datetime object, you will need to use 'strptime' !

datetime.strptime() takes two parameters:

First, the string that is written in a datetime format (example 'May 12 2001 2:22PM')

Second, the corresponding format matching the first parameter's date string (formatted using symbols defined to represent datetime; the full list can be found at https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior) When setting up this second parameter for strptime, make sure the symbols correspond with the part of the date string (example: 'May 22' would be represented by '%b %d', spacing matters!)

Create a function string_to_datetime that takes the test date strings and converts them into datetime objects!

string_to_datetime.py

# main.py
def string_to_datetime(string_dt):
    pass


# tests.py 
def test_string_to_datetime_1():
    assert string_to_datetime('Mar 22 2019 4:26PM') == datetime(2019, 3, 22, 16, 26)

def test_string_to_datetime_2():
    assert string_to_datetime('Dec 14 1992 8:42PM') == datetime(1992, 12, 14, 20, 42)

      
# solution.py
from datetime import datetime
def string_to_datetime(string_dt):
    return datetime.strptime(string_dt, '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')