Trying to read an argument as string, however doesn't work on python for cygwin. Tested on Python 3.5.0 (32-bit) from Python Software Foundation and works perfectly.
test.py: import datetime import sys my_date = str(sys.argv[1]) temp_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(some_date, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S") $ python test.py $(adb shell 'su 0 date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"') Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 32, in <module> temp_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(some_date, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S") File "/usr/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line 328, in _strptime data_string[found.end():]) ValueError: unconverted data remains: