On Jul 31, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > 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.
+0.8. But, even more than that, dateutil should come with a library of strings for common formats, and a built-in function to parse 8601. It is, after all, the international standard. -- Roy Smith r...@panix.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
