[eliasdorneles]

Yeah, dateutil it is cool, but it has a few problems:

  >>> from dateutil import parser
  >>> parser.parse('')
  datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 24, 0, 0)

It gets worse with fuzzy parsing:

  >>> parser.parse('something meaningless', fuzzy=True)
  datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 24, 0, 0)

[pekk]

Can this not be reported as a bug on the project's issue tracker? I don't understand why people trash things in public instead of at least filing a polite issue.

[eliasdorneles]

I don't mean to trash anything, these are known bugs (there are lots of them issued there: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dateutil).

It seems that dateutil has just not been receiving much love from its developers lately.

[jmsdnns]

I had no idea! Thanks for sharing this.