This module parses the most common forms of ISO 8601 date strings (e.g. 2007-01-14T20:34:22+00:00) into datetime objects.
>>> import iso8601 >>> iso8601.parse_date("2007-01-25T12:00:00Z") datetime.datetime(2007, 1, 25, 12, 0, tzinfo=<iso8601.Utc>) >>>
See the LICENSE file for the license this package is released under.
If you want more full featured parsing look at:
- https://arrow.readthedocs.io - arrow
- https://pendulum.eustace.io - pendulum
- https://labix.org/python-dateutil - python-dateutil
- https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.fromisoformat - Yes, Python 3 has built in parsing too!
You can parse full date + times, or just the date. In both cases a datetime instance is returned but with missing times defaulting to 0, and missing days / months defaulting to 1.
- YYYY-MM-DD
- YYYYMMDD
- YYYY-MM (defaults to 1 for the day)
- YYYY (defaults to 1 for month and day)
- hh:mm:ss.nn
- hhmmss.nn
- hh:mm (defaults to 0 for seconds)
- hhmm (defaults to 0 for seconds)
- hh (defaults to 0 for minutes and seconds)
- Nothing, will use the default timezone given (which in turn defaults to UTC).
- Z (UTC)
- +/-hh:mm
- +/-hhmm
- +/-hh
Known differences from the ISO 8601 spec:
- You can use a " " (space) instead of T for separating date from time.
- Days and months without a leading 0 (2 vs 02) will be parsed.
- If time zone information is omitted the default time zone given is used (which in turn defaults to UTC). Use a default of None to yield naive datetime instances.
To install simply use pip:
pip install iso8601
iso8601.parse_date
iso8601.ParseError
Currently active or previously active committers:
- Michael Twomey
- Julien Danjou