[issue31864] datetime violates Postel's law

Change by Ned Deily : -- resolution: -> third party status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue31864] datetime violates Postel's law

Geoff Kuenning added the comment: Duh, my mistake. The problem is in dateutil, which AFAICT is indeed not part of the Python standard library. I'll hang my head in shame and go report the problem in the right place. -- resolution: third party -> status: closed ->

[issue31864] datetime violates Postel's law

R. David Murray added the comment: I meant the python standard library datetime package doesn't parse files, of course :) Other parts of the stdlib certainly do parse files. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue31864] datetime violates Postel's law

R. David Murray added the comment: The python standard library does not parse files, nor does it have a _parse_rfc message. You say you reported the problem you are having to "the program's maintainer", and that is appropriate. There does not appear to be anything in

[issue31864] datetime violates Postel's law

Change by Geoff Kuenning : -- components: +Library (Lib) type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker

[issue31864] datetime violates Postel's law

New submission from Geoff Kuenning : The datetime package is too eager to reject nonconforming VCALENDAR-format files. The particular issue I encountered is related to time zones. RFC 5545 clearly states that the DTSTART field is required. However, there are situations