Is there a Python module to detect month or day in string?

Question

Is there a Python module to parse month or day references in a given string?

Answer 1

You could try using dateutil.parser, e.g.:

>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> parser.parse("There's a date 09-21 in here", fuzzy=True)
datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 21, 0, 0)

... with the fuzzy=True option. The documentation is here.