In article <mailman.325.1346961282.27098.python-l...@python.org>, Dave Angel <d...@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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list