On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Luca Invernizzi <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a look in their code: > > A good news and a bad one. > Good news first: it supports localization. > Bad news: only four localizations have been written. > Every locale is a separate class > > http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/source/browse/trunk/parsedatetime/parsedatetime_consts.py?spec=svn85&r=85 > > It does have some funny variables like: > self._leapYears = [ 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, > 1940, 1944, > 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, > 1980, 1984, 1988, > 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, > 2024, 2028, 2032, > 2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052, 2056, 2060, 2064, > 2068, 2072, 2076, > 2080, 2084, 2088, 2092, 2096 ] >
Urgh! Let's hope someone will think to add more dates after 2096! ;-) > I'm generally against "reinventing the wheel", but since we use only a subset > of > their features, we could write something more easily localizable. After seeing what the code looks like, I think we'd better do this, yes. Depending on a bad dependency will quickly become a nightmare of workarounds. > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Bertrand Rousseau wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Natural date parsing is a really exciting feature. It would be >> interesting to play with it. However, one major issue I see with this >> feature is localization. Do this library support several locales? >> >> I think localization-aware natural date parsing is a not an easy >> feature. It could be worth including it in GTG dependancies, then (at >> least if the package is well maintained). >> >> Bertrand >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Luca Invernizzi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > I found out a nice library in the ubuntu repository to parse times in >> > "human"format. >> > >> > The name is python-parsedatetime, and from their home page >> > (http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/): >> > parsedatetime is able to parse, for example, the following: >> > August 25th, 2008 >> > 25 Aug 2008 >> > Aug 25 5pm >> > 5pm August 25 >> > next saturday >> > tomorrow >> > next thursday at 4pm >> > at 4pm >> > eod >> > tomorrow eod >> > eod tuesday >> > eoy >> > eom >> > in 5 minutes >> > 5 minutes from now >> > 5 hours before now >> > 2 hours before noon >> > 2 days from tomorrow >> > >> > >> > I'm not saying that we should add that as dependency, but maybe we could >> > "steal" some code. >> > >> > >> > >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> > >> > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJLhPM+AAoJEJwV7kAnLtWzl6sQAML/my+EMuA4hSzHrlE99uBx >> > xNzVGyEe1eDChcsZ97rbcvUB0Qc9ejz8h3tm7+z58CFzvLArlyo3Eq67BfHdOBQl >> > /lpu2pephR0EaOUv6AUOodmr3vrmnaVAMUFGPYC4Fw9t5DbuSnUXCKut0r6LVIIv >> > YY+zIL9MsLHuOlzSXeiU5x6OV2JWYfSkLvhYclP/jc6aU904Kaek0TuJIE36R3am >> > V+FxOEoDHjsYZRc65nrO+wF10T5TIi7cEqmLZwHaiaeqlG9MicfAmW7J1Ehyv7R0 >> > kwyVlU3hspqdkzq/eU4yNMjz9jM4PlJQuMgUGZdO66JSvkNqylgC4DwReDVH+3Pa >> > 7z03mNs0HcuPqfHCn9+7/CyNaeC0IsLBnYlOgj46m7HHhckY2Psn//PQuZY1IL2+ >> > mYGi3itTz3SHTxLPO1hNrj9rcZlyzPtq/0zkFjrkGbN4vBAaUcJI1SN5a6UikOIO >> > 0hAEYhUa9VgGbjmLjc4RYwdtqat+fd9OYBX+KTi5cw9lOj25valYtYVtn/0MDN/u >> > jja0KZ23RAaayvbsZ0lmhRJ2XSByFXSZHbFng5bR74dp5ASZBahiDtpxGxjzzSCX >> > 8H+Zon3yrdxGfb3tc4X5HxU6QSc16RJxvduUQS2jferEbpKoXWrvUEZVtAsTNmIl >> > brbDv1Stt1Gp2rERMrH+ >> > =p4rC >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Bertrand Rousseau > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJLhPv1AAoJEJwV7kAnLtWzITgP/2j0fHLYdH/nk2sKmr9aM7vW > 76RbRm06xxUzqItMYfYkWt9oA5TCWrFgI4xB3Y8IGDLR/4vXWuqAbye61ZzIXE6G > aRObWU5gEav+P6h7GZ/kVAJ7GkhLYzO4cF1wNa1/83Q7fobUjIo9l5koF3HsRJ8y > A/ikavjgqOzk6B8D9Q9fvTWQSx+KEWhTAmctcOD6CLYg0z+2Zeei0nb9qCXsaaDJ > nAW5ThKGIbb1OjpA10NPNQ53xwgmxSpE4B8aRW1A63DNyiM+j4jd8+gQ7qtvwyU5 > L8f/pr8k6XWb678GHZxEks7XDcpdeppjz0qwjrSSugP1vJ9bnd1s2j39KEImLv0K > +dOXXPegvw/8hF5hL9kAiri3V6ZaRcvqD14/Hpabb/8v30xar8PhOeJyayL1aHB9 > F5KSrymCfs6U8mc0Q+ypCUPe9EhC41lOsN2d2E1FsVF581b54vhFSyp5wnWzpmBK > X1vX/U1ip6o97LIm1WrT+0kB9zBpFNtQML7c4lgBQiFEwARHoJ3e0bNK06sCWWiD > vO4rZ2Y3UZbaf2a5/92x5x4koo9OuyfI0/jmzhTDBcia0G1v+v4lCEXU9+yZYHKV > ZcB4omI351bMoRsOIQCL8CdexdN+FyNlaCd6/M+9wbXnPQtmJnIJI2jFAyk6VdBb > cyP3HjrdnVhXfMhYBPk0 > =Pgrb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Bertrand Rousseau _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
