How to parse timezone with colon

Question

Is there a way to parse timezone in \"+00:00\" format with datetime.strptime? For instance:

Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:4         


        

Answer 1

Another solution is to use the dateutil library:

from dateutil import parser

mystr = '2015-04-30T23:59:59+00:00'

x = parser.parse(mystr)

# 2015-04-30 23:59:59+00:00