### 5.1.8.1 Creating Datetime Objects from Formatted Strings

The `datetime` class does not directly support parsing formatted time strings. You can use `time.strptime` to do the parsing and create a `datetime` object from the tuple it returns:

    >>> s = "2005-12-06T12:13:14"
    >>> from datetime import datetime
    >>> from time import strptime
    >>> datetime(*strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")[0:6])
    datetime.datetime(2005, 12, 6, 12, 13, 14)