In article <mailman.323.1346961101.27098.python-l...@python.org>, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote:
> The ISO date/time format is dead simple and well-defined. Well defined, perhaps. But nobody who has read the standard could call it "dead simple". ISO-8601-2004(E) is 40 pages long. Of course, that fact that it's complicated enough to generate 40 pages worth of standards document just argues that much more strongly for it being in the standard lib (so there can be one canonical, well-tested, way to do it). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list