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Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime

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On Jul 31, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> Sadly, the stdlib datetime really doesn't make life easy for dealing
>> with ISO-8601.  Dateutil is the classic answer, but it's slow.
> 
> A useful feature for dateutil would be a "sniff" function which, given
> a date string that dateutil.parser.parse can handle, instead returns a
> format string suitable for use with time.strptime.

+0.8.  But, even more than that, dateutil should come with a library of strings for common formats, and a built-in function to parse 8601.  It is, after all, the international standard.


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Roy Smith
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converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-07-31 11:11 +0200
  Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-31 07:52 -0400
    Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 07:59 -0500
    Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-31 09:13 -0400
    Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-07-31 15:29 +0200

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