On: Dateparser: Python parser for human readable dates

[jmsdnns]

Python also has dateutil, which can do similar things and has been around a long time: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil

[jeromeparadis → jmsdnns]

If you look at the features section of the GitGub project, it says it is based on dateutil and actually added features on top of it.

[eliasdorneles → jmsdnns]

Yeah, dateutil it is cool, but it has a few problems:

  >>> from dateutil import parser
  >>> parser.parse('')
  datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 24, 0, 0)

It gets worse with fuzzy parsing:

  >>> parser.parse('something meaningless', fuzzy=True)
  datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 24, 0, 0)

[pekk → eliasdorneles]

Can this not be reported as a bug on the project's issue tracker? I don't understand why people trash things in public instead of at least filing a polite issue.

[eliasdorneles → pekk]

I don't mean to trash anything, these are known bugs (there are lots of them issued there: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dateutil).

It seems that dateutil has just not been receiving much love from its developers lately.

[jmsdnns → eliasdorneles]

I had no idea! Thanks for sharing this.