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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.
With pip
.. code-block:: sh
pip install datefinder
Note: I do not publish the version on conda forge and cannot verify its integrity.
.. code-block:: python
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
Video demo
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