converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Jul 31 07:52:44 EDT 2014
In article <mailman.12461.1406797909.18130.python-list at python.org>,
Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to convert ISO8601-compliant strings representing dates or
> dates and times into datetime.datetime objects.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601
or
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/isodate
There's also....
> I do know about the dateutil package, but I'd prefer to stick to the
> stdlib for this.
Sadly, the stdlib datetime really doesn't make life easy for dealing
with ISO-8601. Dateutil is the classic answer, but it's slow. The
isodate module cited above is what we use.
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