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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_from_gnucash26_date(date_str: str) -> date: """ Creates a datetime from GnuCash 2.6 date string """

    date_format = "%Y%m%d"
    result = datetime.strptime(date_str, date_format).date()
    return result