parsetime

This library provides a few related functions which allow parsing timestamps/datetimes from strings.

There are a few classes of strings that parsetime handles, they are:

• Timestamps ("2010-04-10" or "2010-04-10 12:30:15")
• Relative dates/times ("7 days ago" or "10 minutes ago")
• Specific keywords ("now", "today", "tomorrow", or "yesterday")

API

parse_dt(value[, tzinfo=None])

• value string
• tzinfo tzinfo

Returns datetime representation of the input value with tzinfo matching that of the tzinfo parameter. If tzinfo is None, UTC is assumed. If the input can not be parsed, raises ValueError.

parse_ts(value[, tzinfo=None])

• value string
• tzinfo tzinfo

Returns a UTC int timestamp representation of the input value according to the tzinfo parameter specified. If tzinfo is None, UTC is assumed. If the input can not be parsed, raises ValueError.

Examples

>>> import parsetime
>>> parsetime.parse_dt("7 days ago")
datetime.datetime(2013, 4, 8, 0, 56, 25, 886358)
>>> parsetime.parse_dt("2013-04-08 00:56::25")
datetime.datetime(2013, 4, 8, 0, 56, 25, 0)
>>> parsetime.parse_ts("3 hours ago")
1365976689

License

Parsetime is covered by the MIT license, http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT