On 9/8/2012 5:20 PM, John Gleeson wrote:
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> On 2012-09-06, at 2:34 PM, John Nagle wrote:
>> Yes, it should. There's no shortage of implementations.
>> PyPi has four. Each has some defect.
>>
>> PyPi offers:
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>> iso8601 0.1.4 Simple module to parse ISO 8601 dates
>> iso8601.py 0.1dev Parse utilities for iso8601 encoding.
>> iso8601plus 0.1.6 Simple module to parse ISO 8601 dates
>> zc.iso8601 0.2.0 ISO 8601 utility functions
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> Here are three more on PyPI you can try:
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> iso-8601 0.2.3 Flexible ISO 8601 parser...
> PySO8601 0.1.7 PySO8601 aims to parse any ISO 8601 date...
> isodate 0.4.8 An ISO 8601 date/time/duration parser and formater
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> All three have been updated this year.
There's another one inside feedparser, and there used to be
one in the xml module.
Filed issue 15873: "datetime" cannot parse ISO 8601 dates and times
http://bugs.python.org/issue15873
This really should be handled in the standard library, instead of
everybody rolling their own, badly. Especially since in Python 3.x,
there's finally a useful "tzinfo" subclass for fixed time zone
offsets. That provides a way to directly represent ISO 8601 date/time
strings with offsets as "time zone aware" date time objects.
John Nagle
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