scrapinghub / scrapinghub/dateparser
Shortened Hebrew months are not parsed
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
Type: Bug - Language
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 2.9k
- Forks
- 520
- Avg merge
- 22h 56m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 6
Description
When the date uses the full month name (i.e. "June"):
# works correctly
>>> parse('1 ביוני 2014')
datetime.datetime(2014, 6, 1, 0, 0)
But when using a shortened month name (i.e. "Aug."):
>>> parse('31 באוג׳ 2014') is None
True
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the full and shortened Hebrew month examples from the issue, then trace how Hebrew month names are recognized. Done means the shortened form parses to the same expected datetime as the full month name.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- localization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100