Never mind, use isodate since it isn't broken.

Author: Julian

docs/validate.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The Basics
 The simplest way to validate an instance under a given schema is to use the
 :func:`validate` function.
 
-.. autofunction:: validate
+.. function:: validate
 
 
 The Validator Interface
@@ -339,16 +339,14 @@ On OSes with the ``socket.inet_pton`` function, an additional checker for
         False
 
 
-If the iso8601_ library is present, a date-time checker will also be present.
+If the isodate_ library is present, a date-time checker will also be present.
 
 .. function:: is_date_time
 
     Check if the instance is in ISO 8601 ``YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ`` format.
 
         >>> is_date_time("1970-01-01T00:00:00.0Z")
         True
-        >>> is_date_time("1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT")
-        False
         >>> is_date_time("0000-58-59T60:61:62")
         False
 
@@ -378,5 +376,5 @@ CSS will be enabled:
         >>> is_css_color_code("#CC8899")
         True
 
-.. _iso8601: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601/
+.. _isodate: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/isodate/
 .. _webcolors: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/webcolors/

jsonschema.py

@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
     webcolors = None
 
 try:
-    import iso8601
+    import isodate
 except ImportError:
-    iso8601 = None
+    isodate = None
 
 
 __version__ = "1.0.0-dev"
@@ -641,13 +641,13 @@ def is_regex(instance):
         return False
 
 
-if iso8601 is not None:
+if isodate is not None:
     @FormatChecker.cls_checks("date-time")
     def is_date_time(instance):
         try:
-            iso8601.parse_date(instance)
+            isodate.parse_datetime(instance)
             return True
-        except ValueError:
+        except (ValueError, isodate.ISO8601Error):
             return False
 
 
@@ -967,32 +967,5 @@ def _uniq(container):
 
 
 def validate(instance, schema, cls=Draft3Validator, *args, **kwargs):
-    """
-    Validate an ``instance`` under the given ``schema``.
-
-        >>> validate([2, 3, 4], {"maxItems" : 2})
-        Traceback (most recent call last):
-            ...
-        ValidationError: [2, 3, 4] is too long
-
-    :func:`validate` will first verify that the provided schema is itself
-    valid, since not doing so can lead to less obvious error messages and fail
-    in less obvious or consistent ways. If you know you have a valid schema
-    already or don't care, you might prefer using the ``validate`` method
-    directly on a specific validator (e.g. :meth:`Draft3Validator.validate`).
-
-    ``cls`` is a validator class that will be used to validate the instance.
-    By default this is a draft 3 validator.  Any other provided positional and
-    keyword arguments will be provided to this class when constructing a
-    validator.
-
-    :raises:
-        :exc:`ValidationError` if the instance is invalid
-
-        :exc:`SchemaError` if the schema itself is invalid
-
-    """
-
-
     cls.check_schema(schema)
     cls(schema, *args, **kwargs).validate(instance)

tox.ini

@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ commands =
     {envpython} -m doctest jsonschema.py
 deps =
     mock
-    nose
-    sphinx
-    webcolors
+    {[testenv:py33]deps}
 
 [testenv:docs]
 basepython = python
@@ -27,6 +25,7 @@ deps =
 
 [testenv:py33]
 deps =
+    isodate
     nose
     sphinx
     webcolors