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by: Tim Williams - Mon, 22 May 2023 20:21 UTC

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:41 PM Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 5/20/23 13:53, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm converting a bash script to python as it has become rather clumsy
> > in bash.
> >
> > However I have hit a problem with converting dates, the bash script
> > has:-
> >
> > dat=$(date --date "$1" +"%Y/%m/%d")
> >
> > and this will accept almost anything reasonably sensible that can be
> > interpreted as a date, in particular it accepts things like "tomorrow",
> > "yesterday" and "next thursday".
> >
> > Is there anything similar in Python or would I be better off simply
> > using os.system() to run date from the python program?
> >
>
> in the standard library, datetime
>
> as an addon module, dateutil (install as python-dateutil)
>
> Don't know if either are exactly what you want, but do take a look.
>
> --
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In particular,check out dateutil.parser.
parser — dateutil 2.8.2 documentation
<https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parser.html>

parser
<https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parser.html#module-dateutil.parser>

This module offers a generic date/time string parser which is able to parse
most known formats to represent a date and/or time.

This module attempts to be forgiving with regards to unlikely input
formats, returning a datetime object even for dates which are ambiguous. If
an element of a date/time stamp is omitted, the following rules are applied:

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> On 23/05/2023 7:16 pm, Chris Green wrote:
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>> A script I use to create diary entries, so it's very handy to be able
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> OK - I thought maybe baklabel might suit, but that delivers a day-name
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Subject	Author
Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command in Linux?	Chris Green
Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command	Mats Wichmann
Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command	Tim Williams
Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command	Mike Dewhirst
Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command in Linux?	Chris Green
Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command	Alex Pinkney
Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command	Mike Dewhirst
Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command	Mike Dewhirst