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Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

> 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 !

It seems it supports only some custom subset of ISO 8601. There is rfc
3339 [1] that describes a profile of the ISO 8601 standard.

rfc 3339 combines human readability with the simplicity of machine parsing.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339


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Akira