[Python-Dev] iso8601 parsing

[Mario Corchero]

There were discussions about having it a function, making the constructor
of datetime accept a string(this was strongly rejected), having a static
funcion in datetime, etc... and there was no real agreement.

If the agreement is that we want a funcion to be able to parse it I am sure
Paul G will be kind to do it (he told me not long ago he was thinking on
sending a PR for it). If he is busy I am happy to chip in time this
weekend.

All I wanted when I sent https://bugs.python.org/issue31800 was actually to
be able to parse isoformat datetime ^^.



 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 at 00:09, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> See my comment from over a year ago: <
> https://bugs.python.org/issue15873#msg273609>.  The proposed patch did
> not have a C implementation, but we can use the same approach as with
> strptime and call Python code from C.  If users will start complaining
> about performance, we can speed it up in later releases.  Also the new
> method needs to be documented.  Overall, it does not seem to require more
> than an hour of work from a motivated developer, but the people who
> contributed to the issue in the past seem to have lost their interest.
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