def parse_isodate(iso_date):
    date = None

    try:
        date = isodate.parse_date(iso_date)
    except Exception, e:
        log.msg(e.message, level=log.WARNING)

    return date
parse the given iso8601 date string into a python date object
dataset/ETHPy150Open fictivekin/openrecipes/scrapy_proj/openrecipes/util.py/parse_isodate