A python module for locating dates inside text. Use this package to extract all sorts of date like strings from a document and turn them into datetime objects.
This module finds the likely datetime strings and then uses dateutil to convert to the datetime object.
What does this fork achieves that the main repo does not: - handling mm[-/.]yy and mm[-/.]yyyy even for strict modes - changing the century conversion rule for current year - catches new dates regarding mmddyy formats
With pip
pip install datefinder
Note: I do not publish the version on conda forge and cannot verify its integrity.
In [1]: string_with_dates = """
...: ...
...: entries are due by January 4th, 2017 at 8:00pm
...: ...
...: created 01/15/2005 by ACME Inc. and associates.
...: ...
...: """
In [2]: import datefinder
In [3]: matches = datefinder.find_dates(string_with_dates)
In [4]: for match in matches:
...: print match
...:
2017-01-04 20:00:00
2005-01-15 00:00:00
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