How do I check a body text for different date formats and convert it into datetime format?
The body of text could be:
May 6 2014 (can use parser here)
Tue May 6 2014
mm/dd/yyyy , yyyy/mm/dd etc
yyyy:dd::mm, mm:dd:yyyy
and so on.
Is there an easy way to check what format the date is in ?
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related: [Converting string into datetime](http://stackoverflow.com/q/466345/4279) – jfs May 07 '14 at 21:43
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related: [Python date string to date object](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2803852/4279) – jfs May 07 '14 at 21:44
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python-dateutil module is pretty good at parsing datetime strings in different formats:
>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> parser.parse('May 6 2014')
datetime.datetime(2014, 5, 6, 0, 0)
>>> parser.parse('Tue May 6 2014')
datetime.datetime(2014, 5, 6, 0, 0)
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