[New-bugs-announce] [issue35829] datetime: parse "Z" timezone suffix in fromisoformat()

[rdb]

New submission from rdb <rddeblois at gmail.com>:

The fromisoformat() function added in 3.7 is a very welcome addition.  But one quite noticeable absence was the inability to parse Z instead of +00:00 as the timezone suffix.

Its absence is particularly noticeable given how ubiquitous use of Z is in ISO 8601 timestamps on the web; it is also part of the RFC 3339 subset.  In particular, JavaScript produces it in its canonical ISO 8601 format and is therefore quite common in JSON APIs; this would be the only piece missing to parse ISO dates produced by JavaScript correctly.

I realise that the function was not intended to be able to parse *all* timestamps.  But given the triviality of this change, the ubiquity of this particular formatting feature, and the fact that this change is designed in particular for operability with the widely-used JavaScript date format, I don't think this is a slippery slope, and I would personally see no harm in accepting a 'Z' instead of a timezone.

I am happy to follow up with a patch for this, but would first like confirmation that there is any chance that such a change would be accepted.  Thanks for your consideration!

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 334365
nosy: rdb
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: datetime: parse "Z" timezone suffix in fromisoformat()
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8

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