Hi,
I would like to check if a string contains a valid date format
(Format: "dd.mm.yyyy") or not.
What is the best way to do this. regexp? At the moment it would be
sufficient to check for
[digit][digit].[digit][digit].[digit][digit][digit][digit] but a full
date verification (Month in range 1-12 ...) would be very nice too.
Sample code would help me very much.
regards
Detlef
PS: I'm a python newbie, so excuse this silly question 5 2263
Detlef Jockheck wrote: Hi,
I would like to check if a string contains a valid date format (Format: "dd.mm.yyyy") or not.
What is the best way to do this. regexp? At the moment it would be sufficient to check for [digit][digit].[digit][digit].[digit][digit][digit][digit] but a full date verification (Month in range 1-12 ...) would be very nice too.
Sample code would help me very much.
regards Detlef
PS: I'm a python newbie, so excuse this silly question
This should work, returning True for valid dates and False otherwise:
import re
_re = re.compile(r'(\d{2})\.(\d{2})\.(\d{4})$')
def testdate(s):
try:
day, month, year = [int(x) for x in _re.match(s).groups()]
except AttributeError:
return False
return 1 <= day <= 31 and 1 <= month <= 12
Implementing things such as different number of days for each month and
leap years is left as an exercise to the reader. :-)
--
Ciao,
Matteo sp******@gmx.de (Detlef Jockheck) wrote in
news:b5**************************@posting.google.c om: Hi,
I would like to check if a string contains a valid date format (Format: "dd.mm.yyyy") or not.
What is the best way to do this. regexp? At the moment it would be sufficient to check for [digit][digit].[digit][digit].[digit][digit][digit][digit] but a full date verification (Month in range 1-12 ...) would be very nice too.
Sample code would help me very much.
regards Detlef
PS: I'm a python newbie, so excuse this silly question
Don't use a regexp for this sort of task, its much better to do the
conversion and catch an error if the conversion fails. In this case you
should use time.strptime with an appropriate format. Sample code as
requested: import time time.strptime("27.7.2004","%d.%m.%Y")
(2004, 7, 27, 0, 0, 0, 1, 209, -1) time.strptime("27.13.2004","%d.%m.%Y")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#8>", line 1, in -toplevel-
time.strptime("27.13.2004","%d.%m.%Y")
File "C:\Python23\lib\_strptime.py", line 424, in strptime
raise ValueError("time data did not match format: data=%s fmt=%s" %
ValueError: time data did not match format: data=27.13.2004 fmt=%d.%m.%Y time.strptime("29.2.1800", "%d.%m.%Y")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#15>", line 1, in -toplevel-
time.strptime("29.2.1800", "%d.%m.%Y")
File "C:\Python23\lib\_strptime.py", line 513, in strptime
julian = datetime_date(year, month, day).toordinal() - \
ValueError: day is out of range for month time.strptime("29.2.2000", "%d.%m.%Y")
(2000, 2, 29, 0, 0, 0, 1, 60, -1)
Use time.strptime and it'll check everything for you. import re
_re = re.compile(r'(\d{2})\.(\d{2})\.(\d{4})$') def testdate(s): try: day, month, year = [int(x) for x in _re.match(s).groups()] except AttributeError: return False return 1 <= day <= 31 and 1 <= month <= 12
Implementing things such as different number of days for each month and leap years is left as an exercise to the reader. :-)
Le 27-07-2004, Duncan Booth <me@privacy.net> a écrit*: Don't use a regexp for this sort of task, its much better to do the conversion and catch an error if the conversion fails. In this case you should use time.strptime with an appropriate format. Sample code as requested:
Just as a side note, be careful with strptime, if you have cross
platform portability in mind. On older versions of python, this function
is not available on Windows, and on Unix systems, it relies on the C
library which is not always the GNU libc, which means that some
extensions available on linux systems are not available on Unix boxes.
We had the case on project which was deployed on AIX, and had to fight
with IBM's strptime implementation regarding white space handling. I
think it used to be picky with leading zeros too.
--
Alexandre Fayolle
Logilab
Matteo Dell'Amico <de***@toglimi.linux.it> wrote in message news:<tI********************@twister1.libero.it>.. . Detlef Jockheck wrote: Hi,
I would like to check if a string contains a valid date format (Format: "dd.mm.yyyy") or not.
What is the best way to do this. regexp? At the moment it would be sufficient to check for [digit][digit].[digit][digit].[digit][digit][digit][digit] but a full date verification (Month in range 1-12 ...) would be very nice too.
Sample code would help me very much.
regards Detlef
PS: I'm a python newbie, so excuse this silly question
This should work, returning True for valid dates and False otherwise:
import re
_re = re.compile(r'(\d{2})\.(\d{2})\.(\d{4})$') def testdate(s): try: day, month, year = [int(x) for x in _re.match(s).groups()] except AttributeError: return False return 1 <= day <= 31 and 1 <= month <= 12
Implementing things such as different number of days for each month and leap years is left as an exercise to the reader. :-)
Hi!
That's great. Now I understand how this works. Thank you very much :-)
regards
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