[Python-ideas] strptime without second argument as an inverse to __str__

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Wolfgang Maier <
wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> BTW, Terry's suggestion of datetime.fromstr(s) sounds very reasonable.


We don't have int.fromstr, float.fromstr, or in fact a .fromstr constructor
for any other type.  IMO, date(str) is "the obvious way to do it."
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