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Validate if a text string is a valid date with a supplied format string
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| import datetime | |
| def isDate(date_text, fmt): | |
| try: | |
| datetime.datetime.strptime(date_text, fmt) | |
| except ValueError: | |
| return False | |
| return True |
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