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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
(\*) As an aside (that is, this belongs in a separate thread if you
want to discuss it), in my opinion, attempting to support ISO 8601
formatting is pointless without the presence of an anchor datetime.
I meant ISO 8601 syntax for "durations" [1].
"""
For example, "P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S" represents a duration of "three years, six months, four days, twelve hours, thirty minutes, and five seconds".
"""
And if you have to ask - no I don't want to see this anywhere near Python stdlib. :-)