Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command in Linux?

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 24/05/2023 6:00 pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> On 23/05/2023 7:16 pm, Chris Green wrote:
>> Mike Dewhirst<miked at dewhirst.com.au>  wrote:
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>>> On 21/05/2023 5:53 am, Chris Green wrote:
>>>> I'm converting a bash script to python as it has become rather clumsy
>>>> in bash.
>>> What is the use case?
>>>
>> A script I use to create diary entries, so it's very handy to be able
>> to give the date as 'yesterday' or 'friday'.
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> OK - I thought maybe baklabel might suit, but that delivers a day-name 
> (backup filename prefix) for today or a given date

I have just refreshed baklabel on PyPI and upped it from my local svn 
server to github [1]

The changes include resolving ambiguous dates across locales eg USA vs 
Australia 5/6/2023 being detected as May in USA and June in Australia on 
the assumption that the user knows what is required.

[1] https://github.com/mdewhirst/baklabel

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