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Sentinel Datetime

For python-dateutil

Inspired by a stackoverflow question, for when you want to know a little more about the datetime strings you are parsing with python-dateutil

Install

pip install sentinel-datetime

Usage

>>> from dateutil import parser
>>>
>>> from sentinel_datetime import sentinel
>>>
>>> date = parser.parse("Sep-2nd 11:00:00", default=sentinel())
>>> date.has_day
True
>>> date.has_year
False
>>> date.todatetime()
2021-09-02 11:00:00

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only the current date is returned irrespective of the input date string

I installed sentinel-datetime using pip and ran the following:

$ python
Python 3.8.6 (default, Sep 25 2020, 09:36:53) 
[GCC 10.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> from sentinel_datetime import sentinel
>>> date = parser.parse("Sep-2nd 11:00:00", default=sentinel())
>>> date
sentinel(2021, 1, 10, 0, 0)
>>> parser.parse('2020', default=sentinel())
sentinel(2021, 1, 10, 0, 0)
>>> parser.parse('2020-09-10', default=sentinel())
sentinel(2021, 1, 10, 0, 0)

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