pyiso8601

A simple ISO 8601 date parsing library for Python.

I originally took a regex I was using and wrapped in a library I published on PyPI, mostly for my own convenience. I had gotten sick of copying and pasting the same regex around 😄

Since this was 20 years ago there were next to no packages on PyPI in comparison to now, so it was pretty common to accidentally grab a fairly general name for libraries. So I accidentally wound up publishing a heavily used library, I suspect mostly because of the name (though the functionality is useful too!).

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/iso8601/

GitHub: https://github.com/micktwomey/pyiso8601

Usage is pretty simple:

>>> import iso8601
>>> iso8601.parse_date("2007-01-25T12:00:00Z")
datetime.datetime(2007, 1, 25, 12, 0, tzinfo=<iso8601.Utc>)
>>>

Example of pyiso8601 usage

It tries to do the sensible thing with most forms of ISO 8601 alike date strings.

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