How to compare string and datetime?

Question

Django

I have a string like "datetime.date(2018, 12, 11)" i need to compare it with datetime.date type. Something like:
if date_string == datetime.date:
do_something
How do I do this?

Answer 1

strptime convert string to date

from datetime import datetime
chday = datetime.strptime('datetime.date(2018, 12, 31)', 'datetime.date(%Y, %m, %d)')
today = datetime.today()
print(today < chday)
print(today > chday)
print(today == chday)
type(chday)

True
False
False
<class 'datetime.datetime'>

Answer 2

The simplest option (and the most insecure):

>>> import datetime
>>> in_str = "datetime.date(2018, 12, 11)"
>>> type(in_str)
<class 'str'>
>>> res = eval(in_str)
>>> res
datetime.date(2018, 12, 11)
>>> type(res)
<class 'datetime.date'>