Python: convert Unicode string to MM / DD / YYYY

Question

I have a unicode string like u'Mar232012 ' . I want to convert it to MM / DD / YYYY format using python in post efficiently and reliably.

Answer 1

import datetime datetime.datetime.strptime(u'Mar232012', '%b%d%Y').strftime('%m/%d/%Y') 

prints '03/23/2012'