datetime parser fails on valid ISO 8601 string

[Chris Johnson]

dateutil.parser.parse()
-- input = a string, supposedly formatted as an ISO 8601 date/time
-- output = a Python datetime, if the input could be parsed

This works:

>>> dateutil.parser.parse("2012-04-05T13:06:47.458Z")
datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 5, 13, 6, 47, 458000, tzinfo=tzutc())

This fails:

>>> dateutil.parser.parse("2012-04-05T13:06:47,458Z")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 697, in parse
    return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 303, in parse
    raise ValueError, "unknown string format"
ValueError: unknown string format

The only difference between the two is, in failed case fractional seconds are delimited by comma, not period.

The ISO 8601 standard allows both comma and period.

Should succeed / give the same output for both inputs.

Regards
-- Chris

[Tomi Hukkalainen (tpievila)]

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