Dates and Memory Posted Tue, 26 Jul 2011

Recently, I was working with Daf and Rob on a little offline wiki project -- more on that soon -- and we realized that we needed to parse some dates in ISO 8601 format. One of us wondered out loud if there was a Python module that could help us. I offered to take a look.

Turns out, less than two months before, someone had uploaded just such a module into Debian. The maintainer? Me.

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Awesome!! Good job anticipating your future need. :-)

I love it when my brain hiccups like that...and it happens more frequently than I would like to admit.
Posted by Matthew Helmke at Tue Jul 26 15:16:40 2011
> Awesome!! Good job anticipating your future need. :-)

^
This :D
Posted by HoellP at Tue Jul 26 17:27:09 2011
Congrats you are now old!

The thing that always happens to me to to be googling for some error string and the first hit is a bug in the Debian BTS that I either filed, triaged, or solved.
Posted by taggart at Tue Jul 26 20:57:26 2011
Alternatively, have you taken a look at python-dateutil (also in Debian, and ported to Python 3, though apparently not both at the same time)?

Use is easy:

>>> import dateutil.parser
>>> dateutil.parser.parse('2007-06-20T12:34:40+03:00')
datetime.datetime(2007, 6, 20, 12, 34, 40, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, 10800))
Posted by Samat Jain at Tue Jul 26 21:08:10 2011
I prefer http://pypi.python.org/pypi/isodate which seems more up to date.
Posted by Christoph Burgmer at Wed Jul 27 05:44:49 2011
Hahahah, yes, absolutely, been there.

Too much beer on my brain in my case, I guess :)
Posted by David Moreno at Wed Jul 27 11:20:38 2011
Nice one. This takes the analogy in http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/12/26/excellent-adventures-in-free-software/ to its logical conclusion.
Posted by Matt Zimmerman at Sat Jul 30 22:10:39 2011

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