Parse French date in python

Question

Can someone please tell me how can I parse a French date in Python? Sorry if the question is a duplicate but I couldn\'t find one.

Here is what I have tried using t

Answer 1

dateparser module can parse dates in the question:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import dateparser # $ pip install dateparser

for date_string in [u"Aujourd'hui", "3 juillet", u"4 Août", u"Hier"]:
    print(dateparser.parse(date_string).date())

It translates dates to English using a simple yaml config and passes the date strings to dateutil.parser.

Output

2015-09-09
2015-07-03
2015-08-04
2015-09-08