Iakov Davydov added the comment: ISO 8601 is meant as the standard way to provide an unambiguous and well-defined method of representing dates and times. And the fact that it is widely used in e-mails doesn't make it e-mail specific.
Incorporating function parsedate_to_datetime to email.util is acceptable. But the fact that standard python datetime library doesn't have means to parse ISO-approved time format seems strange to me. Once again: ISO 8601 is not a e-mail specific format. So I do not see a reason why parsing it is possible only via email. Using different time-parsing functions in different libraries seems like a bad design to me. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5207> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
