On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Akira Li <4kir4...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
I just came across this package: http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/ Among other features it lists this: Gaps in functionality: ISO-8601 parsing, timespans, humanization -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
