Natural Language Date Processing.

[John McMonagle]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:47 +0100, Michael Amrhein wrote:
> Andrew Gwozdziewycz schrieb:
> >> You may take a look at http://labix.org/python-dateutil
> >> Have fun
> >> Michael
> >>
> > 
> > Looks like it does a good job parsing dates, but doesn't seem to do
> > english dates. I found a javascript implementation of a few functions
> > that will probably be relatively easy to port to python. Whether or
> > not it'll perform well is another story... Thanks for the help.
> > 
> > --
> > Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apgwoz at gmail.com>
> > http://ihadagreatview.org
> > http://plasticandroid.org
> 
>  >>>from dateutil.parser import parse
>  >>>parse("April 16th, 2003")
> datetime.datetime(2003, 4, 16, 0, 0)
>  >>>parse("4/16/2003")
> datetime.datetime(2003, 4, 16, 0, 0)
> 
> Aren't these "english dates"?

I suspect the OP is referring to "english dates" as non-US format - to
follow the international convention (DD/MM/YYYY).

You can use the dayfirst parameter to the parse function to always
assume international date format:

US Format:
>>> parse("10/12/2004")
datetime.datetime(2004, 10, 12, 0, 0)

International format:
>>> parse("10/12/2004", dayfirst=True)
datetime.datetime(2004, 12, 10, 0, 0)


John




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