Convert date/datetime strings to Python date/datetime

One of the nice things from elasticutils was automatic conversion of date/datetime strings in responses to Python date/datetime objects. What are you thoughts on adding something like that here?

Here’s the code from elasticutils: https://github.com/mozilla/elasticutils/blob/master/elasticutils/__init__.py#L423-L437

Something like this could be done at getattr time in AttrDict, updating the _d object on the fly on first access.

[honzakral]

@barseghyanartur: this is already done for you when you define your mapping in python via the DocType class

[barseghyanartur]

@HonzaKral:

from dateutil import parser
parser.parse(obj)

And we get datetime.date or datetime.datetime objects.