Python - finding date in a string

Question

I want to be able to read a string and return the first date appears in it. Is there a ready module that I can use? I tried to write regexs for all possible date format, but it

Answer 1

I found the following very useful for converting the time to a uniform format and then searching for this format pattern:

from datetime import datetime

date_object = datetime.strptime('March-1-05', '%B-%d-%y')
print date_object.strftime("%B %d, %Y")