Working with Dates and Times in Python

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The datetime module provides classes for working with dates and times. It's essential for tasks like logging, scheduling, calculating durations, or displaying formatted dates.

We'll cover the main classes (date, time, datetime, timedelta), formatting/parsing, arithmetic, and timezones.

Importing and Basic Objects

Creating Specific Dates/Times

Formatting with strftime

Convert datetime objects to strings with custom format.

Parsing with strptime

Date Arithmetic with timedelta

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