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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion Doc/library/datetime.rst
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Expand Up @@ -857,7 +857,9 @@ Other constructors, all class methods:
.. caution::

This does not support parsing arbitrary ISO 8601 strings - it is only intended
as the inverse operation of :meth:`datetime.isoformat`.
as the inverse operation of :meth:`datetime.isoformat`. A more full-featured
ISO 8601 parser, ``dateutil.parser.isoparse`` is available in the third-party package
`dateutil <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parser.html#dateutil.parser.isoparse>`_.

.. versionadded:: 3.7

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-08-29-10-40-05.bpo-37979.TAUx_E.rst
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Added a link to dateutil.parser.isoparse in the datetime.fromisoformat
documentation. Patch by Paul Ganssle