Parsing datetime in Python..?

Parsing datetime in Python..?

As @TimPietzcker suggested, the dateutil package is the way to go, it handles the first 3 formats correctly and automatically:

`>> from dateutil.parser import parse >>> parse("Fri Sep 25 18:09:49 -0500 2009") datetime.datetime(2009, 9, 25, 18, 9, 49, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -18000)) >>> parse("2008-06-29T00:42:18.000Z") datetime.datetime(2008, 6, 29, 0, 42, 18, tzinfo=tzutc()) >>> parse("2011-07-16T21:46:39Z") datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 16, 21, 46, 39, tzinfo=tzutc())`

The unixtime format it seems to hick up on, but luckily the standard datetime.datetime is up for the task:

Converting Unixtime

`>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.utcfromtimestamp(float("1294989360")) datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 14, 7, 16)`

It is rather easy to make a function out of this that handles all 4 formats:

`from dateutil.parser import parse from datetime import datetime def parse_time(s): try: ret = parse(s) except ValueError: ret = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(s) return ret`

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27804057/concise-ascii-date-to-decimal-date