New submission from Peter Marsh:
Hello,
Reasonably frequently I find myself needing to pass a date as a command line
argument to a Python script I've written. Currently, argparse does not have a
built support for dates - this adds a new class to argparse (much like the
existing FileType) that parses arguments to datetime.date instances.
Example:
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--start', type=argparse.DateType('%d/%m/%Y))
>>> parser.add_argument('end', type=argparse.DateType())
>>> parser.parse_args(['--start', '01/02/2015', '2015-01-03'])
Namespace(end=datetime.date(2015, 1, 3), start=datetime.date(2015, 1, 2))
I think this would be a useful addition to the standard library, a quick Google
shows that many people roll their own version of this anyway.
Support for datetime.datetime and perhaps even datetime.timedeltas might be
good too, but date/times get a bit more complicated (timezones in general and
varying support for the '%z' format string which is required to default to an
ISO8601 date time).
Cheers,
Pete
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components: Library (Lib)
files: argparse_datetype.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 240220
nosy: petedmarsh
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: New DateType for argparse (like FileType but for dates)
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file38859/argparse_datetype.patch
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