- update to 2.8.2:
- Updated tzdata version to 2021a. (gh pr #1128)
- Fixed a bug in the parser where non-``ValueError`` exceptions would be raised
during exception handling; this would happen, for example, if an
``IllegalMonthError`` was raised in ``dateutil`` code. Fixed by Mark Bailey.
(gh issue #981, pr #987).
- Fixed the custom ``repr`` for ``dateutil.parser.ParserError``, which was not
defined due to an indentation error. (gh issue #991, gh pr #993)
- Fixed a bug that caused ``b'`` prefixes to appear in parse_isodate exception
messages. Reported and fixed by Paul Brown (@pawl) (gh pr #1122)
- Make ``isoparse`` raise when trying to parse times with inconsistent use of
`:` separator. Reported and fixed by @mariocj89 (gh pr #1125).
- Fixed ``tz.gettz()`` not returning local time when passed an empty string.
Reported by @labrys (gh issues #925, #926). Fixed by @ffe4 (gh pr #1024)
* Documentation changes
* Simplified handling of bytes and bytearray in ``_parser._timelex``.