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

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In article <mailman.325.1346961282.27098.python-list@python.org>,
 Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:

> For working with datetime, see
>     http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime
> 
> and look up  datetime.strptime()

strptime has two problems.

One is that it's a pain to use (you have to look up all those 
inscrutable %-thingies every time).

The second is that it doesn't always work.  To correctly parse an 
ISO-8601 string, you need '%z', which isn't supported on all platforms.

The third is that I never use methods I can't figure out how to 
pronounce.

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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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