Convert date from excel in number format to date format python

I am reading data from excel and manipulating the data using python. But dates are coming as integers. How can I convert the dates back to date format?

5/15/2015 is coming as 42139.00

Answers:

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Method 1

from datetime import datetime
excel_date = 42139
dt = datetime.fromordinal(datetime(1900, 1, 1).toordinal() + excel_date - 2)
tt = dt.timetuple()
print(dt)
print(tt)

As mentioned by J.F. Sebastian, this answer only works for any date after 1900/03/01

EDIT: (in answer to @R.K)

If your excel_date is a float number, use this code:

from datetime import datetime

def floatHourToTime(fh):
    hours, hourSeconds = divmod(fh, 1)
    minutes, seconds = divmod(hourSeconds * 60, 1)
    return (
        int(hours),
        int(minutes),
        int(seconds * 60),
    )

excel_date = 42139.23213
dt = datetime.fromordinal(datetime(1900, 1, 1).toordinal() + int(excel_date) - 2)
hour, minute, second = floatHourToTime(excel_date % 1)
dt = dt.replace(hour=hour, minute=minute, second=second)

print(dt)
assert str(dt) == "2015-05-15 00:13:55"

Method 2

The module xlrd provides a function xldate_as_tuple to convert Excel’s numerical date format to a tuple (year, month, day, hour, minute, nearest_second).

You can then use datetime.datetime to convert the tuple into a datetime-object.

from datetime import datetime
import xlrd

excel_date = 44032
python_date = datetime(*xlrd.xldate_as_tuple(excel_date, 0))

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