Message 170114 - Python tracker

Message170114

Author	belopolsky
Recipients	Alexander.Belopolsky, Arfrever, belopolsky, cvrebert, nagle, r.david.murray, roysmith
Date	2012-09-09.16:11:00
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Message-id	<1347207061.21.0.978594637144.issue15873@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I realize that while that is certainly an absolute lower bound, > it's almost certainly not sufficient. The most common use case > I see on a daily basis is parsing strings that look like > "2012-09-07T23:59:59+00:00". This is exactly what isoformat() of an aware datetime looks like: >>> datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat() '2012-09-09T16:09:46.165886+00:00' str() is the same up to T replaced by space: >>> print(datetime.now(timezone.utc)) 2012-09-09 15:19:12.567692+00:00

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> I realize that while that is certainly an absolute lower bound,
> it's almost certainly not sufficient.  The most common use case
> I see on a daily basis is parsing strings that look like
> "2012-09-07T23:59:59+00:00".

This is exactly what isoformat() of an aware datetime looks like:

>>> datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
'2012-09-09T16:09:46.165886+00:00'

str() is the same up to T replaced by space:

>>> print(datetime.now(timezone.utc))
2012-09-09 15:19:12.567692+00:00

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2012-09-09 16:11:01	belopolsky	set	messageid: <1347207061.21.0.978594637144.issue15873@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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