Intelligent Date & Time parsing

[Mike Driscoll]

On Mar 7, 4:08 pm, shak... at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm new to python and I was wondering if there are any intelligent
> date/time parsing modules out there. I've looked at strptime (or
> whichever it is) and mxDateTime from the eGenix package. I need
> something to parse user input for a django app, and it's awesome to be
> able to write "last monday", "a year ago", or "10pm tuesday" like
> PHP's strtotime.
>
> So are there any modules that allow for that kind of parsing?

There's the dateutil module that's a fancy wrapper for the datetime
module. The author's site has lots of examples as well as the source:

http://labix.org/python-dateutil

I use it quite a bit.

HTH

Mike