from dateutil import parser import json def parsedate(value, dayfirst=False, yearfirst=False): "Parse a date and convert it to ISO date format: yyyy-mm-dd" return ( parser.parse(value, dayfirst=dayfirst, yearfirst=yearfirst).date().isoformat() ) def parsedatetime(value, dayfirst=False, yearfirst=False): "Parse a datetime and convert it to ISO datetime format: yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS" return parser.parse(value, dayfirst=dayfirst, yearfirst=yearfirst).isoformat() def jsonsplit(value, delimiter=",", type=str): 'Convert a string like a,b,c into a JSON array ["a", "b", "c"]' return json.dumps([type(s.strip()) for s in value.split(delimiter)])