timeparser 0.3.1

A python-module to parse strings to time-, date-, datetime- or timedelta-objects. Which formats are accepted is configurable. The module also provides classes to use with the argparse-module for parsing command-line arguments.

A python-module to parse strings to time-, date-, datetime- or timedelta-objects. Which formats are accepted is configurable. The module also provides classes to use with the argparse-module for parsing command-line arguments.

Latest Version

The latest version of this project can be found at : http://github.com/thomst/timeparser.

Installation

• Option 1 : Install via pip

  pip install timeparser

• Option 2 : If you have downloaded the source

  python setup.py install

Documentation

How to use?

>>> import timeparser
>>>
>>> timeparser.parsedate('24.4.13')
datetime.date(2013, 4, 24)
>>>
>>> timeparser.parsedate('24 Apr 2013')
datetime.date(2013, 4, 24)
>>>
>>> timeparser.parsetime('234405')
datetime.time(23, 44, 5)
>>>
>>> timeparser.TimeFormats.config(allow_no_sep=False)
>>> timeparser.parsetime('234405')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "timeparser.py", line 398, in parsetime
    raise ValueError("couldn't parse %s as time" % string)
ValueError: couldn't parse 234405 as time
>>>
>>> timeparser.parsedatetime('24-04-13_23:44:05')
datetime.datetime(2013, 4, 24, 23, 44, 5)

or with argparse

>>> import argparse
>>> from timeparser import ParseDatetime
>>>
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--datetime', action=ParseDatetime, nargs='+')
>>>
>>> parser.parse_args("--datetime 2.4.2013 23:02".split()).datetime
datetime.datetime(2013, 4, 2, 23, 2)

Reporting Bugs

Please report bugs at github issue tracker: https://github.com/thomst/timeparser/issues

Author

thomst <[e-mail]> Thomas Leichtfuß

• http://github.com/thomst