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| Subject | Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime |
| Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:54:20 +0100 |
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On 31/07/2014 10:11, Wolfgang Maier wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to convert ISO8601-compliant strings representing dates or > dates and times into datetime.datetime objects. > I tried using the strptime method, but the problem here is that I can > only specify one format argument, which can be used to parse either a > full date/time string or just a date string, but not both. > > While I could just try parsing with one format, then catch the > ValueError in case it fails and try another format, it feels like there > should be a more elegant way to do this. > > I do know about the dateutil package, but I'd prefer to stick to the > stdlib for this. > > Any suggestions ? > > Wolfgang > If you're not sorted via stdlib how about http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/ ? Haven't tried it myself as I've only just come across it. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence
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Re: converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-11 23:54 +0100
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