I'm using python 3.7 and trying to figure out the correct format to get this code to work
dt = datetime.strptime("4 January 2022, 22:03 GMT-5", "%-d %b %Y, %H:%M %Zz")
The above line always fails. Is there something I can do to get it to parse? I am assuming its failing on the "GMT-5 part"
Edit: Adding context, the input string is scraped from a website so I need to find a way to turn it into a python datetime object so by code can understand when the event took place. Im not really sure how I could "In Code" change the input to match the required format of strptime
%z parsing directive won't parse an hour-only UTC offset (docs: requires ±HHMM[SS[.ffffff]] form). But you can derive a timezone object from a timedelta and set it like
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
s = "4 January 2022, 22:03 GMT-5"
parts = s.split('GMT')
dt = (datetime.strptime(parts[0].strip(), "%d %B %Y, %H:%M") # parse to datetime w/o offset
.replace(tzinfo=timezone(timedelta(hours=int(parts[1]))))) # add UTC offset
print(dt)
# 2022-01-04 22:03:00-05:00