160 – Parse dates from strings

You can use the class method datetime.date.strptime to parse a date from a string with the given format:

import datetime as dt

date_str = "26/10/2025"

when = dt.date.strptime(date_str, "%d/%m/%Y")
print(f"{when:%B %d, %Y}")  # October 26, 2025

This method is new in Python 3.14 for the class datetime.date, but the classes datetime.datetime and datetime.time already supported strptime.