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Basic conversion of python datetime to string and back
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Simple reversible datetime representation
import datetime
fmt = '%Y%m%d%H%M%S' # ex. 20110104172008 -> Jan. 04, 2011 5:20:08pm
now_str = datetime.datetime.now().strftime(fmt)
now_datetime = datetime.datetime.strptime(now_str, fmt)
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