On 09/06/2012 09:27 PM, John Nagle wrote: > In Python 2.7: > > I want to parse standard ISO date/time strings such as > > 2012-09-09T18:00:00-07:00 > > into Python "datetime" objects. The "datetime" object offers > an output method , datetimeobj.isoformat(), but not an input > parser. There ought to be > > classmethod datetime.fromisoformat(s)
http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime The ISO date/time format is dead simple and well-defined. strptime is quite suitable. > > but there isn't. I'd like to avoid adding a dependency on > a third party module like "dateutil". > > The "Working with time" section of the Python wiki is so > ancient it predates "datetime", and says so. > > There's an iso8601 module on PyPi, but it's abandoned; it hasn't been > updated since 2007 and has many outstanding issues. > > There are mentions of "xml.utils.iso8601.parse" in > various places, but the "xml" module that comes > with Python 2.7 doesn't have xml.utils. > > http://www.seehuhn.de/pages/pdate > says: > > "Unfortunately there is no easy way to parse full ISO 8601 dates using > the Python standard library." > > It looks like this was taken out of "xml" at some point, > but not moved into "datetime". > > John Nagle > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
