[issue15873] "datetime" cannot parse ISO 8601 dates and times
Alexander Belopolsky
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Fri Sep 7 01:08:29 CEST 2012
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
%z format is supported, but it cannot accept colon in TZ offset. It can parse offsets like -0600 just fine. What OP is looking for is the GNU date %:z format which datetime does not support.
For ISO 8601 compliance, however I think we need a way to specify a parser that will accept any valid 8601 format: with T or space separator and with or without : in time and timezone and with or without dashes in date.
I would very much like such promiscuous parser to be implemented in datetime.__new__. So that we can create datetime objects from strings the way we do it with numbers.
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