[New-bugs-announce] [issue37979] Document an alternative to ISO 8601 parsing

[Paul Ganssle]

New submission from Paul Ganssle <p.ganssle at gmail.com>:

Per Antoine's comment in the discourse thread ( https://discuss.python.org/t/parse-z-timezone-suffix-in-datetime/2220/6 ): 

> ... the doc isn’t helpful, as it doesn’t give any alternative.

I think we can link to dateutil.parser.isoparse as an alternative. I'm happy to field other options for ISO 8601 parsers instead, though considering that fromisoformat is adapted from dateutil.parser.isoparse, it seems reasonable to link them.

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assignee: p-ganssle
components: Documentation
messages: 350784
nosy: p-ganssle
priority: low
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Document an alternative to ISO 8601 parsing
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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