Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Sun Sep 9 08:14:30 EDT 2012
In article <mailman.323.1346961101.27098.python-list at python.org>,
Thomas Jollans <t at jollybox.de> wrote:
> The ISO date/time format is dead simple and well-defined.
Well defined, perhaps. But nobody who has read the standard could call
it "dead simple". ISO-8601-2004(E) is 40 pages long.
Of course, that fact that it's complicated enough to generate 40 pages
worth of standards document just argues that much more strongly for it
being in the standard lib (so there can be one canonical, well-tested,
way to do it).
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