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| author | Paul Ganssle <paul@ganssle.io> | 2019-08-29 10:47:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-08-29 07:47:48 -0700 |
| commit | 59725f3badb3028636c8906ecac4ceb0a37f3982 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f46e558c2a6cf1edf6f6d7036f1696bc88d3ab6 | |
| parent | 06145230c833c3db5dab8858e11bcd550a37c57f (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-59725f3badb3028636c8906ecac4ceb0a37f3982.tar.gz | |
bpo-37979: Add alternative to fromisoformat in documentation (GH-15596)
Adds a link to `dateutil.parser.isoparse` in the documentation.
It would be nice to set up intersphinx for things like this, but I think we can leave that for a separate PR.
CC: @pitrou
[bpo-37979](https://bugs.python.org/issue37979)
https://bugs.python.org/issue37979
Automerge-Triggered-By: @pitrou
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/datetime.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-08-29-10-40-05.bpo-37979.TAUx_E.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 0135fa4b02..50f1b9e749 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -857,7 +857,9 @@ Other constructors, all class methods: .. caution:: This does not support parsing arbitrary ISO 8601 strings - it is only intended - as the inverse operation of :meth:`datetime.isoformat`. + as the inverse operation of :meth:`datetime.isoformat`. A more full-featured + ISO 8601 parser, ``dateutil.parser.isoparse`` is available in the third-party package + `dateutil <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parser.html#dateutil.parser.isoparse>`_. .. versionadded:: 3.7 diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-08-29-10-40-05.bpo-37979.TAUx_E.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-08-29-10-40-05.bpo-37979.TAUx_E.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d8d70d6137 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-08-29-10-40-05.bpo-37979.TAUx_E.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Added a link to dateutil.parser.isoparse in the datetime.fromisoformat +documentation. Patch by Paul Ganssle |