On Jul 6, 5:21 pm, m...@pixar.com wrote: > I'm looking for something like Tcl's [clock scan] command which parses > human-readable time strings such as: > > % clock scan "5 minutes ago" > 1246925569 > % clock scan "tomorrow 12:00" > 1246993200 > % clock scan "today + 1 fortnight" > 1248135628 > > Does any such package exist for Python?
If you're on a machine with GNU datethe simplest solution is to use it to parse the string. Q&D: def clock_scan(datestring): stdout,stderr = subprocess.Popen( ['date','+%s','--date=%s' % datestring ], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate() return float(stdout) clock_scan('1 hour ago') clock_scan('next week') Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list