>>> import time, datetime
>>> str = “2008-08-08”
>>> t = time.strptime(str, “%Y-%m-%d”)
>>> Print t
time.struct_time(tm_year=2008, tm_mon=8, tm_mday=8, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=221, tm_isdst=-1)
>>> y,m,d = t[0:3]
>>> print datetime.datetime(y,m,d)
2008-08-08 00:00:00