Python dateutil parser fails

Question

I am attempting to parse the following date strings obtained from email headers:

from dateutil import parser
d1 = parser.parse('Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:46:52 +0200')
d2 = parser.parse('Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:01:56 +0200 (CEST)')
d3 = parser.parse('Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:00:01 +0000 (GMT+00:00)')

The third one fails; am I missing something obvious?

have you tried parser.parse('...', fuzzy=True)?

phimuemue
– phimuemue

2011-07-18 08:03:41 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 8:03 — phimuemue
– phimuemue, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 8:03
phimuemue, add that as an answer and I will accept it!

Petter
– Petter

2011-07-18 08:06:32 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 8:06 — Petter
– Petter, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 8:06
eryksun, that is a good suggestion.

Petter
– Petter

2011-07-18 08:15:22 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 8:15 — Petter
– Petter, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 8:15

phimuemue · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-18 19:03:24Z

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have you tried parser.parse('...', fuzzy=True)? (I suppose it works :))

answered Jul 18, 2011 at 19:03

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Petter Over a year ago

Yes it works. The problem is the extra "+00:00" after "GMT", as pointed out below. The "fuzzy" option ignores this.

Michał Bentkowski · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-18 09:14:18Z

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Give a try to parsedatetime library.

In [16]: import parsedatetime.parsedatetime as pdt

In [17]: p = pdt.Calendar()

In [18]: p.parse("Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:00:01 +0000 (GMT+00:00)")
Out[18]: ((2011, 7, 20, 0, 0, 0, 2, 201, -1), 3)

answered Jul 18, 2011 at 9:14

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Petter Over a year ago

But is it correct? I have difficulty interpreting the tuple. Where is the "13", for example?

Petter Over a year ago

It seems that this parser is confused and thinks the "Wed" refers to tomorrow July 20, which is the closest Wednesday.

warvariuc Over a year ago

Looks like parsedatetime always takes future dates. it has a comment in the source code: # if that day and month have already passed in this year, then increment the year by 1

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