jrnl/parse-date-test.py
William Minchin dd91d7a491 add 'from' and 'to' flags to parse_date
When given a day, allows you to select which end of the day
2014-02-07 10:17:02 -07:00

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"""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