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I'm looking for a Python module that would take an arbitrary block of text, search it for something that looks like a date string, and build a DateTime object out of it. Something like Date::Extract in Perl
Thank you in advance.
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Extracting Dates from a Text File with the Datefinder Module. The Python datefinder module can locate dates in a body of text. Using the find_dates() method, it's possible to search text data for many different types of dates. Datefinder will return any dates it finds in the form of a datetime object.
today() method to get the current local date. By the way, date. today() returns a date object, which is assigned to the today variable in the above program. Now, you can use the strftime() method to create a string representing date in different formats.
Python has a built-in method to parse dates, strptime . This example takes the string “2020–01–01 14:00” and parses it to a datetime object. The documentation for strptime provides a great overview of all format-string options.
You can extract a substring from a string before a specific character using the rpartition() method. rpartition() method partitions the given string based on the last occurrence of the delimiter and it generates tuples that contain three elements where.
The nearest equivalent is probably the dateutil module. Usage is:
>>> from dateutil.parser import parse
>>> parse("Wed, Nov 12")
datetime.datetime(2008, 11, 12, 0, 0)
Using the fuzzy parameter should ignore extraneous text. ie
>>> parse("the date was the 1st of December 2006 2:30pm", fuzzy=True)
datetime.datetime(2006, 12, 1, 14, 30)
Why no give parsedatetime a try?
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