parser.isoparse() accepts invalid ISO 8601 timestamps

[skoehler]

Here are an example that accepts 6 timestamp string that are all invalid according to ISO 8601:

from dateutil.parser import isoparse

for i in (
"2024-01-17T15:21:00-0800",
"2024-01-17T152100-08:00",
"20240117T15:21:00-08:00",
"2024-01-17T152100-0800",
"20240117T15:21:00-0800",
"20240117T152100-08:00"):
    print(isoparse(i))

The EBNF grammar in ISO 8601 clearly indicates that basic format (date without dashes, time and zone without colons) cannot be mixed with the extended format (date with dashes, time and zone with colons). Yet, any mixture of basic and extended format is accepted by isoparse().

It should be said that only removing a single dash from the date or a single colon from the time is not accepted by isoparse().

[Paebbels]

The same bug has been reported to Python's stdlib:

• datetime.fromisoformat() accepts invalid ISO 8601 timestamps python/cpython#115783