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Populating a Django DateTimeField with feedparser

I'm attempting to read my school's athletics/activities calendar, available in iCal or RSS format, into a Django Events model using feedparser.

Everything works, except the dates. Feedparser populates item.updated_parsed with a "9-tuple" but I can't figure out how to make this into something Django will accept in a DateTimeField. (I've used those before, but they've only ever been populated by datetime.datetime.now()).

Any ideas?

Solution

  • Covert the time.struct_time object into a datetime.datetime object:

    from time import mktime
from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(mktime(item['updated_parsed']))