turicreate.SArray.datetime_to_str

SArray.datetime_to_str(format='%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%ZP')

Create a new SArray with all the values cast to str. The string format is specified by the ‘format’ parameter.

Parameters:

format : str

The format to output the string. Default format is “%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%ZP”.

Returns:

out : SArray[str]

The SArray converted to the type ‘str’.

See also

str_to_datetime

References

[1] Boost date time from string conversion guide (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/doc/html/date_time/date_time_io.html)

Examples

>>> dt = datetime.datetime(2011, 10, 20, 9, 30, 10, tzinfo=GMT(-5))
>>> sa = turicreate.SArray([dt])
>>> sa.datetime_to_str("%e %b %Y %T %ZP")
dtype: str
Rows: 1
[20 Oct 2011 09:30:10 GMT-05:00]