[issue23884] New DateType for argparse (like FileType but for dates)

[paul j3]

paul j3 added the comment:

Examples of datetime types from Stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21437258/defining-python-argparse-arguments
The suggested answer (but not accepted) is 'type=lambda s: datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%Y-%m-%d')'

another
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12462074/python-argparse-create-timedelta-object-from-argument

which references
https://gist.github.com/jnothman/4057689
'timedeltatype.py: An argparse type factory that produces datetime.timedelta objects'

and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25470844/specify-format-for-input-arguments-argparse-python
with a type function

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