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From: Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:52:33 +0200
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On 08/01/2014 01:30 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.12480.1406833307.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>   Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> In article <mailman.12461.1406797909.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>>> Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm trying to convert ISO8601-compliant strings representing dates or
>>>> dates and times into datetime.datetime objects.
>>>
>>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601
>>
>> Yikes, what a regex. It must have been painstaking to get that right.
>> https://bitbucket.org/micktwomey/pyiso8601/src/2bd28b5d6cd2481674a8b0c54a8bba6
>> 4ab775f81/iso8601/iso8601.py?at=default
>
> It is a thing of beauty.
>

No wonder I found it hard to write something that seemed bulletproof !