Python date string to date object

Question

How do I convert a string to a date object in python?

The string would be: "24052010" (corresponding to the format: "%d%m%Y")

I don't want a datetime.datetime object, but rather a datetime.date

I suspect that I'm asking a trivial question but I searched and couldn't find it neither on stackoverflow nor on google.

Answer 1

import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime('24052010', '%d%m%Y').date()

Answer 2

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('24052010', "%d%m%Y").date()
datetime.date(2010, 5, 24)

Answer 3

What do you mean by "date"? If you just want the numerical split,

date = '24052010'
day, month, year = date[:2], date[2:4], date[4:]

should do fine.