[Python-Dev] iso8601 parsing

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Paul G <paul at ganssle.io> wrote:

> I can write at least a pure Python implementation in the next few days, if
> not a full C implementation. Shouldn't be too hard since I've got a few
> different Cython implementations sitting around anyway.
>
>
Thanks!

-CHB




> On November 29, 2017 7:06:58 PM EST, Alexander Belopolsky <
> alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> indeed what is the holdup? I don't recall anyone saying it was a bad
>>> idea in the last discussion.
>>>
>>> Do we just need an implementation?
>>>
>>> Is the one in the Bug Report not up to snuff? If not, then what's wrong
>>> with it? This is just not that hard a problem to solve.
>>>
>>
>>
>> See my comment from over a year ago: <https://bugs.python.org/
>> issue15873#msg273609>.  The proposed patch did not have a C
>> implementation, but we can use the same approach as with strptime and call
>> Python code from C.  If users will start complaining about performance, we
>> can speed it up in later releases.  Also the new method needs to be
>> documented.  Overall, it does not seem to require more than an hour of work
>> from a motivated developer, but the people who contributed to the issue in
>> the past seem to have lost their interest.
>>
>


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