[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] jderose 028 Lossless datetime round-trip

[Rob Crittenden]

Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> As per John's request, this patch allows lossless round-tripping of
> Python datetime.datetime objects.
> 
> Unfortunately, the xmlrpclib dumps() and loads() functions use funny
> wrapper objects like xmlrpclib.DateTime rather than directly serializing
> to/from standard Python types like datetime.datetime.  This makes
> lossless round-tripping pretty cumbersome to implement.
> 
> Doing a loads(foo, use_datetime=True) would work, but the `use_datetime`
> kwarg is only available in Python2.5 and newer, so I instead extended my
> xml_wrap() and xml_unwrap() functions.
>

What should this do it if the incoming DateTime value is not parsed 
correctly by datetime.datetime()?

rob