scrapinghub / scrapinghub/dateparser
Q: How to get timedelta from a relative time?
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Type: Enhancement
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Description
Hi!
I couldn't find a way to get a timedelta from a string like 3 hours ago rather than a datetime.
The use case is: I have a column when with values like 3 hours ago and a timestamp with a datetime value, so I want to do something like timestamp - dateparser.parse_timedelta("3 hours ago").
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Research direction
The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the public parsing API and existing handling for relative-time strings, then review how durations are represented. Done should provide a supported way to obtain a timedelta from input such as "3 hours ago" for subtraction from a datetime.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100