In Python there are multiple DateTime parsers which can parse a date string automatically without providing the datetime format. My problem is that I don't need to cast the datetime, I only need the datetime format.
Example: From "2021-01-01", I want something like "%Y-%m-%d" or "yyyy-MM-dd".
My only idea was to try casting with different formats and get the successful one, but I don't want to list every possible format.
I'm working with pandas, so I can use methods that work either with series or the string DateTime parser.
Any ideas?
In pandas
, this is achieved by pandas.tseries.api.guess_datetime_format
from pandas.tseries.api import guess_datetime_format
guess_datetime_format('2021-01-01')
# '%Y-%m-%d'
As there will always be an ambiguity on the day/month, you can specify the dayfirst case:
guess_datetime_format('2021-01-01', dayfirst=True)
# '%Y-%d-%m'