add 'from' and 'to' flags to parse_date

When given a day, allows you to select which end of the day

jrnl/Journal.py

@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ class Journal(object):
         If strict is True, all tags must be present in an entry. If false, the
         entry is kept if any tag is present."""
         self.search_tags = set([tag.lower() for tag in tags])
-        end_date = self.parse_date(end_date)
-        start_date = self.parse_date(start_date)
+        end_date = self.parse_date(end_date, end_flag="to")
+        start_date = self.parse_date(start_date, end_flag="from")
         # If strict mode is on, all tags have to be present in entry
         tagged = self.search_tags.issubset if strict else self.search_tags.intersection
         result = [
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ class Journal(object):
                     e.body = ''
         self.entries = result
 
-    def parse_date(self, date_str):
+    def parse_date(self, date_str, end_flag=None):
         """Parses a string containing a fuzzy date and returns a datetime.datetime object"""
         if not date_str:
             return None
@@ -258,8 +258,14 @@ class Journal(object):
             except TypeError:
                 return None
 
-        if flag is 1:  # Date found, but no time. Use the default time.
-            date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=self.config['default_hour'], minute=self.config['default_minute'])
+        if flag is 1:  # Date found, but no time.
+            if end_flag == "from":
+                date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=0, minute=0)
+            elif end_flag == "to":
+                date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=23, minute=59, second=59)
+            else:
+                # Use the default time.
+                date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=self.config['default_hour'], minute=self.config['default_minute'])
         else:
             date = datetime(*date[:6])
 

parse-date-test.py

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+"""Parses a string containing a fuzzy date and returns a datetime.datetime object"""
+
+from datetime import datetime
+import dateutil
+import argparse
+try: import parsedatetime.parsedatetime_consts as pdt
+except ImportError: import parsedatetime as pdt
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument('-i', default='today')
+parser.add_argument('-f', default=None)
+args = parser.parse_args()
+print "args: " + str(args)
+date_str = args.i
+end_flag = args.f
+
+# Set up date parser
+consts = pdt.Constants(usePyICU=False)
+consts.DOWParseStyle = -1  # "Monday" will be either today or the last Monday
+dateparse = pdt.Calendar(consts)
+
+if not date_str:
+    print "Nothing supplied"
+    # return None
+elif isinstance(date_str, datetime):
+    print date_str
+    # return date_str
+
+try:
+    date = dateutil.parser.parse(date_str)
+    flag = 1 if date.hour == 0 and date.minute == 0 else 2
+    date = date.timetuple()
+except:
+    date, flag = dateparse.parse(date_str)
+
+if not flag:  # Oops, unparsable.
+    try:  # Try and parse this as a single year
+        year = int(date_str)
+        print datetime(year, 1, 1)
+        # return datetime(year, 1, 1)
+    except ValueError:
+        print "return None"
+        # return None
+    except TypeError:
+        print "return None"
+        # return None
+
+if flag is 1:  # Date found, but no time. Use the default time.
+    if end_flag == "from":
+        date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=0, minute=0)
+    elif end_flag == "to":
+        date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=23, minute=59, second=59)
+    else:
+        # Use the default time.
+        date = datetime(*date[:3], hour=9, minute=1)
+else:
+    date = datetime(*date[:6])
+
+# Ugly heuristic: if the date is more than 4 weeks in the future, we got the year wrong.
+# Rather then this, we would like to see parsedatetime patched so we can tell it to prefer
+# past dates
+dt = datetime.now() - date
+if dt.days < -28:
+    date = date.replace(date.year - 1)
+
+print date
+# return date