On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:41 PM Mats Wichmann <m...@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. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list 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: -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
