The fromisoformat() method from the date class is used to generate a date object to convert the argument string (ISO format). It takes a string argument and converts it into an ISO calendar date instance. The standard
Note: The
dateclass is obtained fromdatetimemodule.
fromisoformat(date_string)
This method takes a single argument value:
date_string: It shows the defined date type object will be created.date-type-object: It will transform a string argument value (
The codes below show how fromisformat() behaves.
# Import the datetime moduleimport datetime# intialize the dateISO_date = "2021-12-18";# Call the fromisoformat() method to create the datetime.date objectgregorian_date = datetime.date.fromisoformat(ISO_date);# Print the newly created date objectprint("String as Date object: %s" %gregorian_date);
ISO_date string type variable that contains 2021-12-18 in ISO format.date type object in gregorian_date variable.# Import date class from datetime modulefrom datetime import date# converting string argument in date format# to date type objectdate_object = date.fromisoformat('2021-12-25')# Print the newly created date objectprint("The newly created date object is : %s" %date_object);
'2021-12-25' to date_object.date_object on console.# Import date class from datetime modulefrom datetime import date# intialize today variable with today's date# converting date to a String objecttoday= str(date.today());# printing date as stringprint("Date as string: %s" %today)# invoking fromisoformat() method# to create the datetime.date type objectmydate = date.fromisoformat(today);# Print the newly created date objectprint("The newly created date object is : %s" %mydate);
date.today() method is extracting today’s date and returning a date object. Then, str() is converting date object to a string object today.today on the console.fromisoformat() method from date class and converting today (from ISO formatted date) to mydate as a date object.mydate on the console.