how to convert from to datetime.datetime or str

Question

Hello, I'm running python shell in the terminal with odoo and

I created a field like:

>>> from odoo import fields
>>> dateTest = fields.Date(default=fields.Datetime.now)

and then I do:

>>> type(dateTest)

and the result is:

>>> <class 'odoo.fields.Date'>

so I want to convert this value to a string or datetime.datetime so I can use the strptime command with this variable.

And when the conversion is done, if I do >>>type(dateTest)

The result should be either ">>> <type 'str'> or >>> <type 'datetime.datetime'>, depending on the conversion done.

Thank you very much.

Hilar Andikkadavath · Accepted Answer

There are lot of ways to treat datetime functions.
you can use strftime() function to convert datetime object to string.
eg:
date_obj.strftime(format_of_date) strftime() function actually returns string representing datetime format.
or you can use the to_string(value) function from datetime
eg:
value = fields.Datetime.to_string(value)

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