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

[Mike Dewhirst]

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?

> However I have hit a problem with converting dates, the bash script
> has:-
>
>      dat=$(date --date "$1" +"%Y/%m/%d")
>
> and this will accept almost anything reasonably sensible that can be
> interpreted as a date, in particular it accepts things like "tomorrow",
> "yesterday" and "next thursday".
>
> Is there anything similar in Python or would I be better off simply
> using os.system() to run date from the python program?
>


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