On Mar 7, 4:33 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 7, 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm new to python and I was wondering if there are any intelligent > > date/time parsing modules out there. I've looked at strptime (or > > whichever it is) and mxDateTime from the eGenix package. I need > > something to parse user input for a django app, and it's awesome to be > > able to write "last monday", "a year ago", or "10pm tuesday" like > > PHP's strtotime. > > > So are there any modules that allow for that kind of parsing? > > GNU date can do a lot of these things--if your Django server is > running Linux it probably has GNU date installed. (Might not be > practical to start a new process in the middle of a query, especially > a lot of them.) > > From a shell command line, get the current time (in seconds since > epoch, which you can pass to Python time functions) this way: > > date +"%s.%N" > > And you can enter all sort of relative and absolute date strings: > > date +"%s.%N" --date='last monday' > date +"%s.%N" --date='a year ago' > date +"%s.%N" --date='10pm tuesday' > > These all apparently work. Now all you have to do is call it from > Python using subprocess module and you're set. (DO NOT use os.system > for this since it starts a shell process, which is unnecessarily slow, > and dangerous when passed user input.) > > Carl Banks
Super sweet! I didn't even know you could do craziness like that in python. Thanks for the advice! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
