[omaha] dateutils library

[Shawn Hermans]

Use it all the time for data processing tasks where I need to process
datetime strings.  It will parse most common formats with no problems.


On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Hubert Hickman <hubert.hickman at gmail.com>wrote:

> I second dateutil.  It is incredibly handy when you need to do complicated
> date things.
>
> Hubert Hickman
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Mike Hostetler <mike at squarepegsystems.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I was struggling with some date arithmetic -- I need to take a given date
> > and return back the beginning and ending date of the quarter that given
> > date is in. Sounds fun, right? Yeah, I didn't think so either.
> >
> > Someone pointed me to the dateutils library and, after getting my brain
> > around it, it turned out to be fairly straightforward.
> >
> >
> > from dateutil import rrule,relativedelta
> >
> >    year = this_date.year
> >    quarters = rrule.rrule(rrule.MONTHLY,
> >                       bymonth=(1,4,7,10),
> >                       bysetpos=-1,
> >                       dtstart=datetime.datetime(year,1,1),
> >                       count=8)
> >
> >    first_day = quarters.before(this_date)
> >    last_day =
> >  (quarters.after(this_date)-relativedelta.relativedelta(days=1)
> >
> >                 More info on dateutil here:
> > http://labix.org/python-dateutil
> >
> > Anyone else ever use it?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike Hostetler
> > SquarePeg Systems
> > http://www.squarepegsystems.com
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