Is there a way to check if a string contains a date of unknown format?

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In Python, Is there a way to definitively check if a string contains a date.? It would be preferable if it could catch any date format, but, if not, could it catch the %B-%w-%Y format.

jaho · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-25 01:46:49Z

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You can use dateutil.parser module which will parse any human readable date format for you from a string.

http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-a23e8ae0a661d77b89dfb3476f85b26f0b30349c

answered Nov 25, 2012 at 1:46

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Carlos Roldán Over a year ago

Note, however, that this method has a lot of false positives, e.g: "4" will be considered a date. Also, dates with extra content are not parsed, e.g: "Today is 26/03/19" is not considered a date.

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