yes, parsing utc datetimes works (!??!)

gistfile1.sh

$ pip freeze -l
python-dateutil==1.5
pytz==2013.8
$ python
...
>>> from dateutil.parser import parse
>>> import datetime
>>> import pytz
>>> d = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.UTC)
>>> d
datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 5, 19, 14, 9, 142824, tzinfo=<UTC>)
>>> sz = '2013-11-05T19:14:09.142824Z'
>>> s = d.isoformat()
>>> s
'2013-11-05T19:14:09.142824+00:00'
>>> sz
'2013-11-05T19:14:09.142824Z'
>>> parse(s)
datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 5, 19, 14, 9, 142824, tzinfo=tzutc())
>>> parse(sz)
datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 5, 19, 14, 9, 142824, tzinfo=tzutc())
>>>