dateutil timezone question

[Larry Martell]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need to compare these datetimes, and if I do that I get the dreaded
>> "can't compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes" error.
>
> If you're sure the naive datetimes are UTC, this should work:
>
> import pytz
>
> dt = pytz.utc.localize(dateutil.parser.parse('2016-04-27T00:00:00'))
>
> You can then compare it with other tz-containing datetime objects.

I did mess around with pytz a bit but I was getting a lot of
exceptions - something related to the TZ already being set or
something like that. I don't recall exactly, and I can't scroll back
far enough to find it.