How to parse multiple dates from a block of text in Python (or another language)

Question

I have a string that has several date values in it, and I want to parse them all out. The string is natural language, so the best thing I\'ve found so far is dateutil.

Answer 1

Why not writing a regex pattern covering all the possible forms in which a date can appear, and then launching the regex to explore the text ? I presume that there are not dozen of dozens of manners to express a date in a string.

The only problem is to gather the maximum of date's expressions