Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Sep 11 01:30:18 EDT 2011

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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> But seriously... 2011-12 is not a proper date

It's valid by ISO 8601. The standard allows any number of parts to be
dropped, from least to most significant, in order to have a value with
deliberately reduced precision.

   <URL:https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ISO_8601#General_principles>

> Otherwise see the time and datetime modules:

    >>> import datetime
    >>> text = "2011-12"
    >>> datetime.datetime.strptime(text, "%Y-%m")
    datetime.datetime(2011, 12, 1, 0, 0)

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