Datetime conversion in python wrapper

[ppetrid]

The current python implementation fails to convert the returned ISO-formatted timestamp to a datetime object if the characters representing seconds are less than 10.

For example, I have seen both
2014-08-15T15:39:55.461264+03:00 and
2014-08-15T15:39:55.5706103+03:00 returned by the REST API as TimeStamp in actual calls.
In the former case the parser fails since it tries to convert 55.461264+ to float.

The obvious solution is to replace
L83: time_tokens = timestamp[11:27].split(':') with
L83: time_tokens = timestamp[11:26].split(':') so that only the first 9 digits of seconds are parsed (or maybe even less).

However, I strongly recommend using a library such as dateutil to do this kind of work. It will add a dependency, but a pretty common one. Dateutil will also add timezone information, which is currently missing.

As a side note, I'd like to see other datetime objects returned by the REST API (such as InsDate returned by get_transaction) converted too, currently the wrapper only deals with TimeStamp.

If needed, I could create a pull request for this issue.

[defilerc]

Hi @ppetrid ,

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Best regards