Best way to identify and extract dates from text Python?

Question

As part of a larger personal project I\'m working on, I\'m attempting to separate out inline dates from a variety of text sources.

For example, I have a large list o

Answer 1

You can use the dateutil module's parse method with the fuzzy option.

>>> from dateutil.parser import parse
>>> parse("Central design committee session Tuesday 10/22 6:30 pm", fuzzy=True)
datetime.datetime(2018, 10, 22, 18, 30)
>>> parse("There will be another one on December 15th for those who are unable to make it today.", fuzzy=True)
datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 15, 0, 0)
>>> parse("Workbook 3 (Minimum Wage): due Wednesday 9/18 11:59pm", fuzzy=True)
datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 9, 23, 59)
>>> parse("He will be flying in Sept. 15th.", fuzzy=True)
datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 15, 0, 0)
>>> parse("Th 9/19 LAB: Serial encoding (Section 2.2)", fuzzy=True)
datetime.datetime(2002, 9, 19, 0, 0)