How to use parser on multiple time objects

Question

I have an list:

list = ['2022-06-01', '2022-02-02']

Now am using parser to convert this to python date object. like this,

from dateutil import parser

def to_date(value):
    for data in value:
        return parser.parse(data)

Above one gives just one output, but i need the output for both the times and also need to convert that to an string like this:

From : June 1, 2022 | To: Feb. 28, 2022

Is that possible with parser ?

Answer 1

You can use the standard datetime library to perform the parsing. datetime.datetime.strptime allows you to convert a datetime string to a datetime object. datetime.datetime.strftime allows you to convert a datetime object to the desired string.

dt_from, dt_to = [datetime.datetime.strptime(x, "%Y-%m-%d") for x in dt_list]
dt_str = f"From : {datetime.datetime.strftime('%b %d,%Y', dt_from)} | To: {datetime.datetime.strftime('%b %d,%Y', dt_to)}"]