Convert ISO Date

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Introduction

In Python, dates can be represented in various formats. One such format is the ISO-8601 format, which is a standard format for representing dates and times. In this challenge, you will be tasked with converting a date from its ISO-8601 representation to a datetime.datetime object.

Convert ISO Date

Write a function from_iso_date(d) that takes a string d representing a date in ISO-8601 format and returns a datetime.datetime object representing the same date and time.

from datetime import datetime

def from_iso_date(d):
  return datetime.fromisoformat(d)

from_iso_date('2020-10-28T12:30:59.000000') ## 2020-10-28 12:30:59

Summary

In this challenge, you learned how to convert a date from its ISO-8601 representation to a datetime.datetime object in Python. This can be useful when working with dates and times in various applications.