scrapinghub / scrapinghub/dateparser
Add a way to tell if date is considered ambiguous
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Description
I have a use-case where I want to inform the user that some date string is ambiguous. It would be great if DateDataParser could expose this as an additional property on DateData.
from dateparser.date import DateDataParser
parser = DateDataParser()
parser.get_date_data('11.12.13')
# as a result
DateData(date_obj=datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 12, 0, 0), period='day', locale='en', ambiguous=True)
Knowing the date order used would be helpful too (as proposed in #733).
I'm not sure if the ambiguous property makes sense if we know or assume any locale? Maybe it should be set only if PREFER_LOCALE_DATE_ORDER: False.
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Research direction
Start with DateDataParser.get_date_data and the DateData structure shown in the issue, then review how locale and PREFER_LOCALE_DATE_ORDER affect date interpretation. Compare the proposed ambiguous property with the date-order discussion in #733; done means exposing a consistent result for ambiguous inputs without changing existing parsing behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
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- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100