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How to store and retrieve a date into MySQL database using Python?
To insert a date in a MySQL database, you need to have a column of Type date or datetime in your table. Once you have that, you'll need to convert your date in a string format before inserting it to your database. To do this, you can use the datetime module's strftime formatting function.
Example
from datetime import datetime now = datetime.now() id = 1 formatted_date = now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') # Assuming you have a cursor named cursor you want to execute this query on: cursor.execute('insert into table(id, date_created) values(%s, %s)', (id, formatted_date))
Running this will try to insert the tuple (id, date) in your table.
When you fetch a date from a database using a select query, you'll need to parse it back to a datetime object using functions like strptime.
Example
from datetime import datetime # Assuming you have a cursor named cursor you want to execute this query on: cursor.execute('select id, date_created from table where id=1') # if you inserted the row above, you can get it back like this id, date_str = cursor.fetchone() # date is returned as a string in format we sent it as. So parse it using strptime created_date = datetime.strptime(date_created, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
This will get the created date and parse it to a datetime object.
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