How to remove unconverted data from a Python datetime object -

i have database of correct datetimes few broke so: sat dec 22 12:34:08 pst 20102015

without invalid year, working me:

end_date = soup('tr')[4].contents[1].rendercontents() end_date = time.strptime(end_date,"%a %b %d %h:%m:%s %z %y") end_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(end_date)) 

but once hit object invalid year valueerror: unconverted data remains: 2, great im not sure how best strip bad characters out of year. range 2 6 unconverted characters.

any pointers? slice end_date im hoping there datetime-safe strategy.

yeah, i'd chop off numbers. assuming appended datestring, work:

end_date = end_date.split(" ") end_date[-1] = end_date[-1][:4] end_date = " ".join(end_date) 

i going try number of excess digits exception, on installed versions of python (2.6.6 , 3.1.2) information isn't there; says data not match format. of course, continue lopping off digits 1 @ time , re-parsing until don't exception.

you write regex match valid dates, including right number of digits in year, seems overkill.