I have an unusual date string that I want to insert into a MySQL DB.
date = 'Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:33:07 -0400'
And here is the insert statement
self.cursor.execute("INSERT INTO table1 (`DATE`)VALUES (%s);",(date))
When I do it like this it shows up in the database like :
0000-00-00 00:00:00
Even if I enter the SQL manualy it shows up the same way.
How do I convert the date string into a mysql readable date for insert?
pip install python-dateutil
from dateutil.parser import parse
date = 'Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:33:07 -0400'
parse(date).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
This date string is in RFC 2822 date format and can be parsed with email.utils.parsedate (which is part of the standard library):
In [428]: import email.utils as eu
In [429]: eu.parsedate('Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:33:07 -0400')
Out[429]: (2013, 3, 14, 13, 33, 7, 0, 1, -1)
Once you have a datetime object, you can insert it in that form (without formatting) into MySQL:
date = eu.parsedate('Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:33:07 -0400')
self.cursor.execute("INSERT INTO table1 (`DATE`) VALUES (%s)",(date,))
Note: The second argument to cursor.execute must be a sequence. So use the tuple (date,) instead of the datetime object (date).
Also, no semicolons are necessary in your SQL strings.
I don't have enough reputation to comment to the question above, so I'll put the answer here.
If you get an ImportError when running this, you need to install the module:
from dateutil.parser import parse
Go here to download the parser: http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-2f49784d6b27bae60cde1cff6a535663cf87497b
Next, extract the folder and open cmd with admin privileges. Navigate to the folder and type this:
python setup.py install
