relative date parsing
How had can that be …
*hard*
I’ve outlined in earlier journal entries some of my thoughts and stuff but I think I have a 0.1 version ready. While it still has some bumpy spots, like using a constant 30 for month offsets, it does manage to parse some pretty interesting text.
This is a small set of tests I’ve been using to code against:
5 minutes from now
5 min from now
5m from now
in 5 minutes
5 min
5 min before now
5 min before next week
5 hours from noon
5 hours before noon
in 2 weeks
7 days before now
next day
next week
last week
next tuesday
next thursday
Pretty neat if I do say so myself :)
Now to remove some of the hard-coded constants like 30 for months and some of the hard-coded text so that it can be data-driven to allow for internationalization.
Another thing I want to do is make it allow for text like “5 days from 11/12/2004″. This seems doable but I need to use some code I have found in my travels to try and predict if a given string has a parsable date.
Nothing fancy mind you, there will be plenty of exceptions and well-it-doesn’t-quite-handle-this items in the README :)
“parsetime.py”:http://code-bear.com:4200/svn/codebear/timeparse/branches/parsetime.py
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