need datetime.date.strptime(format)

[ArtemIsmagilov]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

from datetime import date
date.strptime('31/01/22', '%d/%m/%y')
>>>datetime.date(2022, 1, 31)

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

No

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

I need a method for date - strptime. This will allow you to get rid of unnecessary conversions from datetime to date.
I'd like to only work with date objects.
It's great that you have the strftime method for date. But strptime is missing.

I would like to emphasize that I would not like to once again create a datetime object, fill it with empty values, and then convert it to date.

• https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

[ericvsmith]

This will be in 3.14, added by #41431