from datetime import datetime
s = "2016-03-26T09:25:55.000Z"
f = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ"
out = datetime.strptime(s, f)
print(out)
output:
2016-03-26 09:25:55
import locale
print(locale.getlocale())
>> ('nl_BE', 'ISO8859-1')
from datetime import datetime
datetime.strptime('6-Mar-2016', '%d-%b-%Y').strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
>> ValueError: time data '6-Mar-2016' does not match format '%d-%b-%Y'
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US')
datetime.strptime('6-Mar-2016', '%d-%b-%Y').strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
>> '2016-03-06'