Matching dates with regular expressions in Python?

Question

I know that there are similar questions to mine that have been answered, but after reading through them I still don\'t have the solution I\'m looking for.

Using Pyth

Answer 1

Python has a date parser as part of the time module:

import time
time.strptime("December 31, 2012", "%B %d, %Y")

The above is all you need if the date format is always the same.

So, in real production code, I would write a regular expression that parses the date, and then use the results from the regular expression to build a date string that is always the same format.

Now that you said, in the comments, that this is homework, I'll post another answer with tips on regular expressions.