datetime - How to convert the following string to python date?

Question

How can I convert: u'2012-11-07T13:25:10.703Z' to Python datetime?

EDIT

I intend to use something like this:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime('2011-03-07','%Y-%m-%d')
datetime.datetime(2011, 3, 7, 0, 0)

but how can I change the second argument to accommodate my date format?

Answer 1

Use datetime.datetime.strptime:

datetime.datetime.strptime(u'2012-11-07T13:25:10.703Z', '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ')

Result:

datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 7, 13, 25, 10, 703000)

See the description of the strptime behaviour.