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What is date.isoformat() in Python?
Overview
This isoformat() function belongs to the datetime module in Python. It converts the Date object value into a string in ISO format. It follows the ISO 8601, or YYYY-MM-DD, format. It is an inverse function of date.fromisoformat().
Note:
datetimemodule in Python is used to manipulate date and time.
Syntax
date.isoformat()
Parameters
This function does not take any argument value.
Return value
This method will return a string containing the date in ISO 8601 format.
Example
In the example below, we are creating an object today_date which will contain today’s date.
In line 6 of the code below, we convert the today_date object to the ISO 8601 string format:
# Load date class from datetime modulefrom datetime import date# using isoformat() methodtoday_date= date.today()# convert date to string formatdate_str = today_date.isoformat()# string outputprint(date_str)
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