On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Mike Miller <python-dev@mgmiller.net> wrote:
This thread isn't about the numerous third-party solutions that are a pip command away.  But rather getting a minimal return parser to handle datetime.isoformat() into the std library.

It's been needed for years,

indeed what is the holdup? I don't recall anyone saying it was a bad idea in the last discussion.

Do we just need an implementation?

Is the one in the Bug Report not up to snuff? If not, then what's wrong with it? This is just not that hard a problem to solve.

-CHB




 
and hopefully someone can squeeze it into 3.7 before its too late.  (It takes years for a new version to trickle down to Linux dists.)

-Mike



On 2017-11-28 13:09, Skip Montanaro wrote:
It's got its own little parsing language, different than the usual




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