python-dateutil suggestiopn

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/08/2014 00:35, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> It doesn't look like Gustavo Niemeyer is actively working on
> python-dateutil. Tomi Pievilaeinen is listed on PyPI as the author, but
> I have no email address for him, so I'm tossing this message in a bottle
> out into the Gulf Stream in hopes that Gustavo or Tomi notice it.
>
> I'm using imaplib to download and process messages from Gmail. I use
> dateutil.parser.parse to parse the Date header into a datetime object,
> then use the most recent date I've seen to decide where to start up on
> the next run.
>
> Every once in awhile, I encountered a Date header I couldn't parse. The
> couple I've seen so far have the same problem: two different spellings
> of the timezone offset.
>
>      Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:42:08 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>      Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:14:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
> Discarding the extra timezone info in the "(GMT-07:00)" suffix makes the
> string parseable:
>
>  >>> dateutil.parser.parse('Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:42:08 -0700 (GMT-07:00)')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File
> "/Users/skip/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py",
> line 748, in parse
>      return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs)
>    File
> "/Users/skip/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py",
> line 310, in parse
>      res, skipped_tokens = self._parse(timestr, **kwargs)
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
>  >>> dateutil.parser.parse('Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:42:08 -0700')
> datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 23, 16, 42, 8, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -25200))
>
> I suppose I could work around the problem, but it occurs so rarely, it's
> just easier to discard that particular date. This would seem to be low
> priority for Tomi and Gustavo, but thought that if it was an easy change
> it might be worthwhile.
>
> Skip
>

The Gulf Stream is not likely to reach a large enough audience, I 
suggest you expand the numbers by trying the North Atlantic Drift.

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Mark Lawrence