Trying to get the day from a str 10/08/2020 - python-3.x

Question

I need to get the day value from a str 10/08/2020.
I'm getting dates from a List containing a years worth of dates. I'm using the index num to do some date manipulation. First I need to get the day 08 from the date str.
Code segment:
print("Today is = ",re.sub('[^!-~]+',' ',calendarData[i]).strip())
print("indexTarget is = ",indexTarget)
dateTarget = re.sub('[^!-~]+',' ',calendarData[indexTarget]).strip()
print("Target date is = ",dateTarget)
dayTarget = datetime.strptime(dateTarget,"%d")
print("Day Target = ",dayTarget)
Console output:
Today is = 10/01/2020
indexTarget is = 281
Target date is = 10/08/2020
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1702, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\micha\source\repos\makeAReservation\makeAReservation\makeAReservation.py", line 183,
in actual_time
alarm(set_alarm_timer)
File "C:\Users\micha\source\repos\makeAReservation\makeAReservation\makeAReservation.py", line 173, in alarm
makeAReservation()
File "C:\Users\micha\source\repos\makeAReservation\makeAReservation\makeAReservation.py", line 62, in makeAReservation
getIndex4TagetDate()
File "C:\Users\micha\source\repos\makeAReservation\makeAReservation\makeAReservation.py", line 46, in getIndex4TagetDate
dayTarget = datetime.strptime(dateTarget,"%d")
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\_strptime.py", line 565, in _strptime_datetime
tt, fraction = _strptime(data_string, format)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\_strptime.py", line 365, in _strptime
data_string[found.end():])
ValueError: unconverted data remains: /08/2020

Answer 1

Your dateTarget is a string, however datetime.strprime is for creating date object from string. Since you already have a string, you can just slice it and then print.
print("Today is = ",re.sub('[^!-~]+',' ',calendarData[i]).strip())
print("indexTarget is = ",indexTarget)
dateTarget = re.sub('[^!-~]+',' ',calendarData[indexTarget]).strip()
print("Target date is = ",dateTarget)
dayTarget = dateTarget[:2]
print("Day Target = ",dayTarget)