Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?

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Subject	Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?
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John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> writes:

>    I want to parse standard ISO date/time strings such as
>
> 	2012-09-09T18:00:00-07:00
>
> into Python "datetime" objects.

Consider whether RFC 3339 might be a more suitable format.

It is a subset of ISO 8601 extended format.  Some of the restrictions are

  Year must be 4 digits
  Fraction separator is period, not comma
  All components including time-offset are mandatory, except for time-secfrac
  time-minute in time-offset is not optional, must use ±hh:mm or Z

Some latitude is allowed

  T may be replaced by e.g. space

Extra feature

  time-offset of -00:00 means UTC but local time is unknown

-- 
Pete Forman

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Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-06 12:27 -0700
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-06 12:51 -0700
    Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-06 13:34 -0700
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 16:27 -0700
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Gleeson <jdgleeson@mac.com> - 2012-09-08 18:20 -0600
        Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-08 20:51 -0700
          Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-09 06:15 -0400
            Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-09 12:20 +0100
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2012-09-06 21:44 +0200
    Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-09 08:14 -0400
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2012-09-10 22:46 +0100
        Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 08:51 +1000
          Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-10 21:12 -0400
            Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-09-12 02:00 +1000
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-09-06 15:54 -0400
    Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-06 19:44 -0400
      Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? André Malo <ndparker@gmail.com> - 2012-09-08 20:12 +0200
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-06 19:34 -0400
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-09-06 22:12 -0400
  Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go? Pete Forman <petef4+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 13:31 +0100

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