Question

Given a string in xsd:dateTime format I want to create a python datetime object.
I especially need to be able to parse for example a string like this ‘2012-09-23T09:55:00’, but also all other defined examples should be parsed correctly, and also use timezones.

Answer 1

Use the datetime.datetime.strptime class method to parse these:

dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(xsdDateTime, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')

Your example does not include a timezone however. If you really do need timezone support, best resort to the python-dateutil module:

from dateutil.parser import parse
dt = parse(xsdDateTime)