datetime from string in Python, best-guessing string format

Question

The function to get a datetime from a string, datetime.strptime(date_string, format) requires a string format as the second argument. Is there a way to build a

Answer 1

You can use datefinder ,It will detect all types of natural style of dates.

import datefinder # Module used to find different style of date with time

string_value = " created 01/15/2005 by ACME inc.and associates.January 4th,2017 at 8pm"
matches = datefinder.find_dates(string_value)            
for match in matches:
    print("match found ",match)

Output

match found  2005-01-15 00:00:00
match found  2017-01-04 20:00:00