Hi Mike:
I suggested to Darshana that she do a quick survey of existing packages
and I think this was one of the candidates.
John
Mike Taylor wrote:
On Jun 27, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Darshana Chhajed wrote:
Hi John,
I went through the dateutil package which I found on the web. the
link is
http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-42a94eedcff96da7fb1f77096b5a3b519c859ba9
This does not understand natural language.
They use the following command to get the same date of the Next Month :
NOW+relativedelta(months=+1)
The output is in the datetime format.
And the program on date parsing which Bear has already done, takes
the command
cal.parse("next month")
The output is in seconds from the sourcetime(which can be specified
or is assumed to be the current datetime otherwise).Currently this
program is not complete and accurate. I am working on it.
Do you have any other issues besides the one text string it's not
parsing that you told me about last week?
Now , what we require for NL date parsing is to be able to take the
natural language input (like Bear's code) and give the output in
datetime(like dateutil package)
So I was thinking to write a wrapper around the dateutil which help
me use it the way we want to.
is it the right approach? Other suggestions are welcome.
Why not just ask me to alter the API of mine so it returns the date
value you need? Converting the raw internal date value to another
format is just a matter of finding out what formats you require. :)
Is something in how my parser works causing you some grief? Let me
know and I can change it. Right now your the first user of my code
(except for me) so you have my full attention :)
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