Python dateutil.parser throws “ValueError: day is out of range for month”

Question

I have a the following code that runs fine with input format like {Year}/{Month} except when it comes to 1994/02

Here is the sample code

Answer 1

dtp.parse is filling in the missing day with the current date's day. You ran the code on 2013/01/29 and day 29 does not exist in February (i.e. 1994/02/29).

Use this instead:

dtp.parse('1994/01'+'/01')

It will give consistent results (first day of month) regardless of when the code is executed.