parse dates

[brechmos]

Hi,

I have been using PHP the last while and in particular strtotime.
What I want to replicate is finding the second or fourth Monday of the
next month. In PHP with strtotime it is easy (strtotime("sec ond
Monday", strtotime("next month"), but I can't find an easy way to do
it in Python. I have seen DateUtil, but it seems to be able to do
only the simpler parsing (could be wrong).

Any other ideas?

[Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner]

Re: parse dates

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[ brechmos <brechmos@gmail .com]

Hi,
>
I have been using PHP the last while and in particular strtotime.
What I want to replicate is finding the second or fourth Monday of the
next month. In PHP with strtotime it is easy (strtotime("sec ond
Monday", strtotime("next month"), but I can't find an easy way to do
it in Python. I have seen DateUtil, but it seems to be able to do
only the simpler parsing (could be wrong).
>
Any other ideas?

If parsing is not required, dateutil is just fine:

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import relativedelta

# second monday
datetime.now() + relativedelta.r elativedelta(da y=1, weekday=relativ edelta.MO(+2))

# next month
datetime.now() + relativedelta.r elativedelta(mo nths=+1)

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[Eddie Corns]

Re: parse dates

brechmos <brechmos@gmail .comwrites:

>Hi,

>I have been using PHP the last while and in particular strtotime.
>What I want to replicate is finding the second or fourth Monday of the
>next month. In PHP with strtotime it is easy (strtotime("sec ond
>Monday", strtotime("next month"), but I can't find an easy way to do
>it in Python. I have seen DateUtil, but it seems to be able to do
>only the simpler parsing (could be wrong).

>Any other ideas?

http://code-bear.com/code/parsedatetime/

>>import parsedatetime.p arsedatetime as pdt
>>p = pdt.Calendar()
>>p.parse('ne xt month')

((2008, 7, 1, 9, 0, 0, 1, 183, -1), 1)

Eddie