timelib 0.2 - parse english textual date descriptions

[Ralf Schmitt]

Hi all,

timelib is a short wrapper around php's internal timelib module.

It currently only provides two functions for parsing textual date descriptions:

timelib.strtodatetime:

>>> timelib.strtodatetime('today')
datetime.datetime(2009, 6, 23, 0, 0)
>>> timelib.strtodatetime('today')
datetime.datetime(2009, 6, 23, 0, 0)
>>> timelib.strtodatetime('next friday')
datetime.datetime(2009, 6, 26, 0, 0)
>>> timelib.strtodatetime('29 feb 2008 -108 years')
datetime.datetime(1900, 3, 1, 0, 0)

timelib.strtotime:

>>> import time, timelib
>>> time.ctime(timelib.strtotime("now"))
'Tue Jun 23 15:17:32 2009'
>>> time.ctime(timelib.strtotime("4 hours ago"))
'Tue Jun 23 11:17:38 2009'
>>> time.ctime(timelib.strtotime("20080229 -1 year"))
'Thu Mar  1 01:00:00 2007'




timelib is available via PyPI:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/timelib/

Regards,
- Ralf