Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> writes: > On 08/01/2014 01:30 AM, Roy Smith wrote: >> In article <mailman.12480.1406833307.18130.python-l...@python.org>, >> Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>>> In article <mailman.12461.1406797909.18130.python-l...@python.org>, >>>> Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I'm trying to convert ISO8601-compliant strings representing dates or >>>>> dates and times into datetime.datetime objects. >>>> >>>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601 >>> >>> Yikes, what a regex. It must have been painstaking to get that right. >>> https://bitbucket.org/micktwomey/pyiso8601/src/2bd28b5d6cd2481674a8b0c54a8bba6 >>> 4ab775f81/iso8601/iso8601.py?at=default >> >> It is a thing of beauty. >> > > No wonder I found it hard to write something that seemed bulletproof !
It seems it supports only some custom subset of ISO 8601. There is rfc 3339 [1] that describes a profile of the ISO 8601 standard. rfc 3339 combines human readability with the simplicity of machine parsing. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339 -- Akira -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
