Strptime() in python 3 is producing an unwanted output when converting string times to datetime obje-CodePudding

I have a string of times in the 'H|M|S' format, where H is hours, M is minutes, S is seconds. I am trying to convert these into datetimes in the format of H::M::S.

input: 01|15|59, 1|47|6, 01|17|20, 1|32|34, 2|3|17

desired output: [1::15::59, 1::47:06, 1::17::20, 1::32::34, 2::3::17]

My code is

def stat(strg):                                                                     
    strg = strg.split(',')
    strg = [item.replace('|', '::').strip() for item in strg]
    return [datetime.strptime(item, '%H::%M::%S').time() for item in strg]

The output is:

[datetime.time(1, 15, 59), datetime.time(1, 47, 16), datetime.time(1, 17, 20), datetime.time(1, 32, 34), datetime.time(2, 17, 17)]

I want my ouput to be a list of times in the format 'H::M::S' rather than the ouput shown above. How do I format this correctly?

CodePudding user response：

You can simply convert to list and then replace to get desired output if you no need to worry about type of date elements

dt ="01|15|59, 1|47|6, 01|17|20, 1|32|34, 2|3|17"
dt_list = dt.split(",")

dt_list = [w.replace('|', '::') for w in dt_list]
print(dt_list)

output#

['01::15::59', ' 1::47::6', ' 01::17::20', ' 1::32::34', ' 2::3::17']

CodePudding user response：

To get your desired output, you need to use strftime function which formats the datetime obj in a desired manner

return [datetime.strptime(item, '%H::%M::%S').time().strftime('%H::%M::%S') for item in srtg]