Write dates as datetime objects

Question

I have a large list of dates in this format stored as a string type:

Mar 22 2012 5:00PM
Aug 23 2012 6:00AM

How can I convert these into a datetime object in python?

Answer 1

from datetime import datetime

datetime_object = datetime.strptime('Aug 23 2012  6:00AM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')