How would I go about designing a Python program which takes in a date from the user, a date that looks like this 3/13/17, and turns it into a date which looks like this 2017.3.13?

CodePudding user response：

You can split the string by using the str.split method like this:

s = "3/13/17"
month, day, year = s.split("/")
print(f"20{year}.{month}.{day}")

Python will automatically assign the splitted values to the variables month, day, and year

CodePudding user response：

Get the date as text and then convert it to date with the format you would like. or get the date as a number (month, date and year ) separately and make it as a date. Example:

my_string = str(input('Enter date(yyyy-mm-dd): '))
my_date = datetime.strptime(my_string, "%Y-%m-%d")