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Parsing ISO 8601 datetimes without hyphens, colons
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Description
We noticed that ISO 8601 datetimes without hyphens or colons don't seem to be parsable, even though I don't think they're required? Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Times.
E.g.:
>>> import datetime
>>> str(dateparser.parse("2021-01-01T00:00:00Z"))
'2021-01-01 00:00:00+00:00'
>>> str(dateparser.parse("20210101T000000Z"))
'None'
We currently work around such using isodate, with
import dateparser
import isodate
try:
dt = isodate.parse_datetime(s)
except (isodate.isoerror.ISO8601Error, ValueError):
dt = dateparser.parse(s)
but weren't sure whether that was intended?
That question aside, many thanks for the wonderfully handy library!
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Research direction
No repository files or tests are named. Start by reproducing the two Python dateparser.parse examples from the issue and inspect the parser entry point and its existing ISO 8601 handling; done means the compact form "20210101T000000Z" returns the corresponding timezone-aware datetime rather than None.
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- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
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- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Newbie friendliness
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