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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Luca Invernizzi
<invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I had a look in their code:
>
> A good news and a bad one.
> Good news first: it supports localization.
> Bad news: only four localizations have been written.
>          Every locale is a separate class
>          http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/source/browse/trunk/parsedatetime/parsedatetime_consts.py?spec=svn85&r=85
>
>          It does have some funny variables like:
> self._leapYears = [ 1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944,
>                            1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988,
>                            1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032,
>                            2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052, 2056, 2060, 2064, 2068, 2072, 2076,
>                            2080, 2084, 2088, 2092, 2096 ]
>

Urgh! Let's hope someone will think to add more dates after 2096! ;-)

> I'm generally against "reinventing the wheel", but since we use only a subset of
> their features, we could write something more easily localizable.

After seeing what the code looks like, I think we'd better do this,
yes. Depending on a bad dependency will quickly become a nightmare of
workarounds.

>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Bertrand Rousseau wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Natural date parsing is a really exciting feature. It would be
>> interesting to play with it. However, one major issue I see with this
>> feature is localization. Do this library support several locales?
>>
>> I think localization-aware natural date parsing is a not an easy
>> feature. It could be worth including it in GTG dependancies, then (at
>> least if the package is well maintained).
>>
>> Bertrand
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Luca Invernizzi
>> <invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > I found out a nice library in the ubuntu repository to parse times in
>> > "human"format.
>> >
>> > The name is python-parsedatetime, and from their home page
>> > (http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/):
>> > parsedatetime is able to parse, for example, the following:
>> > August 25th, 2008
>> > 25 Aug 2008
>> > Aug 25 5pm
>> > 5pm August 25
>> > next saturday
>> > tomorrow
>> > next thursday at 4pm
>> > at 4pm
>> > eod
>> > tomorrow eod
>> > eod tuesday
>> > eoy
>> > eom
>> > in 5 minutes
>> > 5 minutes from now
>> > 5 hours before now
>> > 2 hours before noon
>> > 2 days from tomorrow
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm not saying that we should add that as dependency, but maybe we could
>> > "steal" some code.
>> >
>> >
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>> Bertrand Rousseau
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