converting ISO8601 date and time string representations to datetime

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.12480.1406833307.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >In article <mailman.12461.1406797909.18130.python-list at python.org>,
> > Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm trying to convert ISO8601-compliant strings representing dates or 
> >> dates and times into datetime.datetime objects.
> >
> >https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601
> 
> Yikes, what a regex. It must have been painstaking to get that right.
> https://bitbucket.org/micktwomey/pyiso8601/src/2bd28b5d6cd2481674a8b0c54a8bba6
> 4ab775f81/iso8601/iso8601.py?at=default

It is a thing of beauty.