parse dates

[Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner]

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[ brechmos <brechmos at gmail.com> ]

> Hi,
> 
> I have been using PHP the last while and in particular strtotime.
> What I want to replicate is finding the second or fourth Monday of the
> next month.  In PHP with strtotime it is easy (strtotime("second
> Monday", strtotime("next month"), but I can't find an easy way to do
> it in Python.  I have seen DateUtil, but it seems to be able to do
> only the simpler parsing (could be wrong).
> 
> Any other ideas?

If parsing is not required, dateutil is just fine:

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import relativedelta

# second monday
datetime.now() + relativedelta.relativedelta(day=1, weekday=relativedelta.MO(+2))

# next month
datetime.now() + relativedelta.relativedelta(months=+1)

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