On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > Sadly, the stdlib datetime really doesn't make life easy for dealing > with ISO-8601. Dateutil is the classic answer, but it's slow.
A useful feature for dateutil would be a "sniff" function which, given a date string that dateutil.parser.parse can handle, instead returns a format string suitable for use with time.strptime. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list