#!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys import re import parsedatetime.parsedatetime as pdt #import parsedatetime.parsedatetime_consts as pdc import datetime # Define Globals pyDate = os.getenv('KMVAR_myDate') # Function for parsing a string and returning a datetime value def datetimeFromString( s ): #c = pdc.Constants() p = pdt.Calendar() result, what = p.parse( s ) dt = 0 # See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1810432/handling-the-different-results-from-parsedatetime # what was returned (see http://code-bear.com/code/parsedatetime/docs/) # 0 = failed to parse # 1 = date (with current time, as a struct_time) # 2 = time (with current date, as a struct_time) # 3 = datetime if what in (1,2,3): # result is struct_time dt = datetime.datetime( *result[:6] ) if what == 0: # Failed to parse raise ValueError, ("Don't understand date '"+s+"'") dt = "Unrecognized Date" return dt NLPDate = datetimeFromString(pyDate) print NLPDate