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The official repository for Babel, the Python Internationalization Library
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parse functions should support a custom format #1090

Open DetachHead opened 5 months ago

DetachHead commented 5 months ago

the babel.dates.format_time and format_date functions support a custom format using LDML syntax. it would be nice if the parse_time and parse_date functions supported it too.

my use case is that i need to parse a time from a string. i don't know what format it will be at runtime, but the LDML format value will be available.