On Nov 1, 2013, at 14:51, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

Issue15873 [1] talks about adding the ability for datetime.datetime (and friends?) to accept a string to create the relevant object (and not just numbers).

Thoughts?

It looks like this is exactly what I just suggested on your other thread, except that the original version at the top of the feature request suggested doing it automatically in __new__, and it's only farther down the comments that people suggested a fromisoformat classmethod instead. So, as you might expect, I like this idea, but I like it as a classmethod rather than magically in __new__.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue15873

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