[Python-Dev] Re: datetime issues (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Sep 15 09:14:17 EDT 2003

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 08:42, A.M. Kuchling wrote:

I believe the email > module > has some useful string->datetime code.

The PyXML package includes a parser (xml.utils.iso8601) for the date/time format most commonly used in XML applications. That and a parser for RFC822 dates would meet the needs of many technical applications (though not ones where users can enter dates -- but that problem may be too complicated for the stdlib). I'll happily convert the iso8601 module for addition to the standard library if date parsing is deemed a topic of interest.

Yep, I think email._parseaddr.parsedate{,_tz}() is an RFC 2822 compliant date parser. Note that there's also Unix-from dates which are slightly different.

I'd also like to see factored out various date formating functions, so that the module is more or less symmetric.

-Barry

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