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Re: Regular expression for different date formats in Python

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2012/11/26  <undesputed.hackerz@gmail.com>:
> Hello Developers,
>
> I am a beginner in python and need help with writing a regular expression for date and time to be fetched from some html documents. In the following code I am walking through the html files in a folder called event and printing the headings with h1 tag using beautifulsoup. These html pages also contains different formats of date and time. I want to fetch and display this information as well. Different formats of date in these html documents are:
>
> 21 - 27 Nov 2012
> 1 Dec 2012
> 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2012
> 26 Nov 2012
>
> Can someone help me out with fetching these formats from these html documents ?
> Here is my code for walking through the files and fetching h1 from those html files:
>
>
> Code:
>
>
>     import re
>     import os
>     from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>
>     for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk("/home/himanshu/event/"):
>         for fle in files:
>             path = os.path.join(subdir, fle)
>             soup = BeautifulSoup(open(path))
>
>             print (soup.h1.string)
>
>             #Date and Time detection
>
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Hi,
the following pattern seems to match all of your examples,

(\d{1,2} )?(Nov|Dec)?( ?- )?(\d{1,2}) (Nov|Dec) (\d{4})

however, it doesn't look like very robust - of course, you have to add
the remaining months' abbreviations and check on the (parts of the)
HTML documents, you are interested in.

hth,
   vbr

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Regular expression for different date formats in Python undesputed.hackerz@gmail.com - 2012-11-26 05:15 -0800
  Re: Regular expression for different date formats in Python Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 17:30 +0100
  Re: Regular expression for different date formats in Python Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 09:05 -0700
    Re: Regular expression for different date formats in Python Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 13:57 -0800
    Re: Regular expression for different date formats in Python Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 13:57 -0800

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