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diff --git a/third_party/pyiso8601/docs/index.rst b/third_party/pyiso8601/docs/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e28f2dc08f --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/pyiso8601/docs/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +pyiso8601: ISO 8601 Parsing for Python +====================================== + +.. image:: https://pypip.in/d/iso8601/badge.png + +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>) +>>> + +This module is released under a MIT license. + +If you want more full featured parsing look at: + +- http://labix.org/python-dateutil - python-dateutil + +Parsed Formats +============== + +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. + +Dates +----- + +- YYYY-MM-DD +- YYYYMMDD +- YYYY-MM (defaults to 1 for the day) +- YYYY (defaults to 1 for month and day) + +Times +----- + +- 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) + +Time Zones +---------- + +- Nothing uses the default timezone given (UTC). +- Z (UTC) +- +/-hh:mm +- +/-hhmm +- +/-hh + +Where it Differs From ISO 8601 +============================== + +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. + +Installation +============ + +To install simply use pip:: + + pip install iso8601 + + +API +=== + +.. autofunction:: iso8601.parse_date + +.. autoexception:: iso8601.ParseError + +Authors +======= + +Currently active committers: + +- Michael Twomey +- Julien Danjou |