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from datetime import datetime a = datetime(2016,10,06,0,0,0) b = datetime(2016,10,01,23,59,59) a-b # datetime.timedelta(4, 1) (a-b).days # 4 (a-b).total_seconds() # 518399.0

Uses C standard format codes. from datetime import datetime datetime_string = 'Oct 1 2016, 00:00:00' datetime_string_format = '%b %d %Y, %H:%M:%S' datetime.strptime(datetime_string, datetime_string_format) # datetime.datetime(2016, 10, 1, 0, 0)

Uses C standard format codes. from datetime import datetime datetime_for_string = datetime(2016,10,1,0,0) datetime_string_format = '%b %d %Y, %H:%M:%S' datetime.strftime(datetime_for_string,datetime_string_format) # Oct 01 2016, 00:00:00