datetime.strptime is not support to convert future date?-CodePudding

I had the following error in Nov 13th 2022

end = datetime.strptime("2022-11-16", "%Y-%d-%m")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/_strptime.py", line 568, in _strptime_datetime
    tt, fraction, gmtoff_fraction = _strptime(data_string, format)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/_strptime.py", line 352, in _strptime
    raise ValueError("unconverted data remains: %s" %
ValueError: unconverted data remains: 6

but I didn't have the error in the following case,

date_value = datetime.strptime("2022-11-12", "%Y-%d-%m")

Well, strptime function of datetime module is not support to convert for future date? If no, let me know the way....please

CodePudding user response：

Future dates are supported by datetime.strptime. Here, you're trying to convert a date with 16 months which is leading to the error. I'm guessing you're looking for

datetime.strptime("2022-11-16", "%Y-%m-%d")

CodePudding user response：

datetime.strptime("2022-11-16", "%Y-%d-%m")

That format string is year-day-month, but you're passing a date string of year-month-day. So it tried to interpret 16 as the month.

Your second example happened to work because it had 12 for the month.

CodePudding user response：

Datetime strptime supports future date. We only have 12 Months but you are asking for 16th Month which doesn't exist.

datetime.strptime("2022-16-11", "%Y-%d-%m")