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[Fredrik Lundh]

Uwe Mayer wrote:

> I've got a ISO 8601 formatted date-time string which I need to read into a
> datetime object.

>>> import time
>>> help(time.strptime)
Help on built-in function strptime in module time:

strptime(...)
    strptime(string, format) -> struct_time

    Parse a string to a time tuple according to a format specification.
    See the library reference manual for formatting codes (same as
    strftime()).

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