[Python-Dev] iso8601 parsing (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 20:17:44 EST 2017


On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Mario Corchero <mariocj89 at gmail.com> wrote:

There were discussions about having it a function, making the constructor of datetime accept a string(this was strongly rejected), having a static function in datetime, etc... and there was no real agreement.

Guido has written several times that a named constructor is the way forward. The name "fromisoformat" was more or less agreed upon as well. In fact, Mathieu Dupuy's patch was 95% there. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20171129/fcdec33b/attachment.html>



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