edx/edx-platform — pull request #1576 by wedaly (2013-11-04 15:22:16+00:00)
Title: Pin dateutil version to 2.1

The latest release of dateutil (2.2) from 11/1 has made the parser stricter about handling `None` values. It used to return a date; now it raises an exception.

This causes an error when we have course descriptors with advertised start dates set to `None`, as verified by tests in common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/tests/test_course_module.py", line 165, in test_is_newish

I couldn't find dateutil in our requirements directory, so I think it's a dependency of a dependency. I added the requirement and pinned it to version 2.1

@nedbat @e0d