.. _spkg_dateutil:

dateutil: Extensions to the standard Python module datetime
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Description
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The dateutil module provides powerful extensions to the standard
datetime module.

License
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Simplified BSD License


Upstream Contact
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Author: Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>

Home page: http://labix.org/python-dateutil

https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

Dependencies
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-  Python
-  Six

Type
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standard


Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    2.8.2

install-requires.txt::

    dateutil >=2.8.1


Equivalent System Packages
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conda:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ conda install python-dateutil


macports:
install the following packages: py-dateutil

void:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo xbps-install  python3-dateutil


See https://repology.org/project/python:python-dateutil/versions


However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage
because using Python site-packages is not supported by the Sage distribution;
see :trac:`29023`