On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 08:42, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
I believe the email
module has some useful string->datetime code.
The PyXML package includes a parser (xml.utils.iso8601) for the date/time format most commonly used in XML applications. That and a parser for RFC822 dates would meet the needs of many technical applications (though not ones where users can enter dates -- but that problem may be too complicated for the stdlib). I'll happily convert the iso8601 module for addition to the standard library if date parsing is deemed a topic of interest.
Yep, I think email._parseaddr.parsedate{,_tz}() is an RFC 2822 compliant date parser. Note that there's also Unix-from dates which are slightly different. I'd also like to see factored out various date formating functions, so that the module is more or less symmetric. -Barry