isodate An ISO 8601 date/time/duration parser and formatter
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An ISO 8601 date/time/duration parser and formatter isodate is a Python module that implements ISO 8601 date, time and duration parsing. The implementation follows ISO8601:2004 standard, and implements only date/time representations mentioned in the standard. If something is not mentioned there, then it is treated as non existent, and not as an allowed option.For instance, ISO8601:2004 never mentions 2 digit years. So, it is not intended by this module to support 2 digit years. (while it may still be valid as ISO date, because it is not explicitly forbidden.) Another example is, that if no time zone designation is given for a time, the it is a local time, and not UTC.As this module maps ISO 8601 dates/times to standard Python data types, like date, time, datetime and timedelta, it is not possible to convert all possible ISO 8601 dates/times. For instance, dates before 0001-01-01 are not allowed by the Python date and datetime classes.DocumentationCurrently there are four parsing methods available.* parse_time:parses an ISO 8601 time string into a time object* parse_date:parses an ISO 8601 date string into a date object* parse_datetime:parses an ISO 8601 date-time string into a datetime object* parse_duration:parses an ISO 8601 duration string into a timedelta or Duration object.As ISO 8601 allows to define durations in years and months, and timedelta does not handle years and months, this module provides a Duration class, which can be used almost like a timedelta object (with some limitations). However, a Duration object can be converted into a timedelta object.Installation:This module can easily be installed with Python standard installation methods. Just use setuptools or easy_instal as usual. Requirements: · Python Limitations: · The parser accepts several date/time representation which should be invalid according to ISO 8601 standard. · · for date and time together, this parser accepts a mixture of basic and extended format. e.g. the date could be in basic format, while the time is accepted in extended format. It also allows short dates and times in date-time strings. · For incomplete dates, the first day is chosen. e.g. 19th century results in a date of 1901-01-01. What's New in This Release: · added method to parse ISO 8601 time zone strings · added methods to create ISO 8601 conforming strings

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