pyRFC3339 parses and generates RFC 3339-compliant timestamps using Python datetime.datetime objects.
>>> from pyrfc3339 import generate, parse
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> import pytz
>>> generate(datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)) #doctest:+ELLIPSIS
'...T...Z'
>>> parse('2009-01-01T10:01:02Z')
datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1, 10, 1, 2, tzinfo=<UTC>)
>>> parse('2009-01-01T14:01:02-04:00')
datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1, 14, 1, 2, tzinfo=<UTC-04:00>)
To install the latest version from PyPI:
$ pip install pyRFC3339
To install the latest development version:
$ pip install https://github.com/kurtraschke/pyRFC3339/tarball/master#egg=pyRFC3339-dev
To build the documentation with Sphinx:
$ pip install -f docs/requirements.txt
$ python setup.py build_sphinx
The documentation is also available online at:
https://pyrfc3339.readthedocs.io/