Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Sep 6 19:44:38 EDT 2012
In article <mailman.325.1346961282.27098.python-list at python.org>,
Dave Angel <d at davea.name> wrote:
> For working with datetime, see
> http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime
>
> and look up datetime.strptime()
strptime has two problems.
One is that it's a pain to use (you have to look up all those
inscrutable %-thingies every time).
The second is that it doesn't always work. To correctly parse an
ISO-8601 string, you need '%z', which isn't supported on all platforms.
The third is that I never use methods I can't figure out how to
pronounce.
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