EventExtract 1.1
EventExtract
License: BSD License

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EventExtract -- python parser for human readable dates
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`dateparser` provides modules to easily parse localized dates in almost
any string formats commonly found on web pages.


Documentation
=============

Documentation is built automatically and can be found on
`Read the Docs <https://dateparser.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_.


Features
========

* Generic parsing of dates in over 200 language locales plus numerous formats in a language agnostic fashion.
* Generic parsing of relative dates like: ``'1 min ago'``, ``'2 weeks ago'``, ``'3 months, 1 week and 1 day ago'``, ``'in 2 days'``, ``'tomorrow'``.
* Generic parsing of dates with time zones abbreviations or UTC offsets like: ``'August 14, 2015 EST'``, ``'July 4, 2013 PST'``, ``'21 July 2013 10:15 pm +0500'``.
* Date lookup in longer texts.
* Support for non-Gregorian calendar systems. See `Supported Calendars`_.
* Extensive test coverage.


Usage
=====

The most straightforward way is to use the `dateparser.parse <#dateparser.parse>`_ function,
that wraps around most of the functionality in the module.





Popular Formats
---------------

    >>> import dateparser
    >>> dateparser.parse('12/12/12')
    datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 12, 0, 0)
    >>> dateparser.parse(u'Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:55:50')
    datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 12, 10, 55, 50)
    >>> dateparser.parse(u'Martes 21 de Octubre de 2014')  # Spanish (Tuesday 21 October 2014)
    datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 21, 0, 0)
    >>> dateparser.parse(u'Le 11 Décembre 2014 à 09:00')  # French (11 December 2014 at 09:00)
    datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 11, 9, 0)
    >>> dateparser.parse(u'13 января 2015 г. в 13:34')  # Russian (13 January 2015 at 13:34)
    datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 13, 13, 34)
    >>> dateparser.parse(u'1 เดือนตุลาคม 2005, 1:00 AM')  # Thai (1 October 2005, 1:00 AM)
    datetime.datetime(2005, 10, 1, 1, 0)

This will try to parse a date from the given string, attempting to
detect the language each time.

You can specify the language(s), if known, using ``languages`` argument. In this case, given languages are used and language detection is skipped:

    >>> dateparser.parse('2015, Ago 15, 1:08 pm', languages=['pt', 'es'])
    datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 15, 13, 8)

If you know the possible formats of the dates, you can
use the ``date_formats`` argument:

    >>> dateparser.parse(u'22 Décembre 2010', date_formats=['%d %B %Y'])
    datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 22, 0, 0)


Relative Dates
--------------

    >>> parse('1 hour ago')
    datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 23, 0)
    >>> parse(u'Il ya 2 heures')  # French (2 hours ago)
    datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 22, 0)
    >>> parse(u'1 anno 2 mesi')  # Italian (1 year 2 months)
    datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 1, 0, 0)
    >>> parse(u'yaklaşık 23 saat önce')  # Turkish (23 hours ago)
    datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 1, 0)
    >>> parse(u'Hace una semana')  # Spanish (a week ago)
    datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 25, 0, 0)
    >>> parse(u'2小时前')  # Chinese (2 hours ago)
    datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 22, 0)

.. note:: Testing above code might return different values for you depending on your environment's current date and time.

.. note:: Support for relative dates in future needs a lot of improvement, we look forward to community's contribution to get better on that part. See `Contributing`.


OOTB Language Based Date Order Preference
-----------------------------------------

   >>> # parsing ambiguous date
   >>> parse('02-03-2016')  # assumes english language, uses MDY date order
   datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 2, 0, 0)
   >>> parse('le 02-03-2016')  # detects french, uses DMY date order
   datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 2, 0, 0)

.. note:: Ordering is not locale based, that's why do not expect `DMY` order for UK/Australia English. You can specify date order in that case as follows usings `Settings`:

    >>> parse('18-12-15 06:00', settings={'DATE_ORDER': 'DMY'})
    datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 18, 6, 0)

For more on date order, please look at `Settings`.


Timezone and UTC Offset
-----------------------

By default, `dateparser` returns tzaware `datetime` if timezone is present in date string. Otherwise, it returns a naive `datetime` object.

    >>> parse('January 12, 2012 10:00 PM EST')
    datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 22, 0, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'EST'>)

    >>> parse('January 12, 2012 10:00 PM -0500')
    datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 22, 0, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'UTC\-05:00'>)

    >>> parse('2 hours ago EST')
    datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 10, 15, 55, 39, 579667, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'EST'>)

    >>> parse('2 hours ago -0500')
    datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 10, 15, 59, 30, 193431, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'UTC\-05:00'>)

 If date has no timezone name/abbreviation or offset, you can specify it using `TIMEZONE` setting.

    >>> parse('January 12, 2012 10:00 PM', settings={'TIMEZONE': 'US/Eastern'})
    datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 22, 0)

    >>> parse('January 12, 2012 10:00 PM', settings={'TIMEZONE': '+0500'})
    datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 22, 0)

`TIMEZONE` option may not be useful alone as it only attaches given timezone to
resultant `datetime` object. But can be useful in cases where you want conversions from and to different
timezones or when simply want a tzaware date with given timezone info attached.

    >>> parse('January 12, 2012 10:00 PM', settings={'TIMEZONE': 'US/Eastern', 'RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE': True})
    datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 22, 0, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'US/Eastern' EST-1 day, 19:00:00 STD>)


    >>> parse('10:00 am', settings={'TIMEZONE': 'EST', 'TO_TIMEZONE': 'EDT'})
    datetime.datetime(2016, 9, 25, 11, 0)

Some more use cases for conversion of timezones.

    >>> parse('10:00 am EST', settings={'TO_TIMEZONE': 'EDT'})  # date string has timezone info
    datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 12, 11, 0, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'EDT'>)

    >>> parse('now EST', settings={'TO_TIMEZONE': 'UTC'})  # relative dates
    datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 10, 23, 24, 47, 371823, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'UTC'>)

In case, no timezone is present in date string or defined in `settings`. You can still
return tzaware `datetime`. It is especially useful in case of relative dates when uncertain
what timezone is relative base.

    >>> parse('2 minutes ago', settings={'RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE': True})
    datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 11, 4, 25, 24, 152670, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Karachi' PKT+5:00:00 STD>)

In case, you want to compute relative dates in UTC instead of default system's local timezone, you can use `TIMEZONE` setting.

    >>> parse('4 minutes ago', settings={'TIMEZONE': 'UTC'})
    datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 10, 23, 27, 59, 647248, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'UTC'>)

.. note:: In case, when timezone is present both in string and also specified using `settings`, string is parsed into tzaware representation and then converted to timezone specified in `settings`.

   >>> parse('10:40 pm PKT', settings={'TIMEZONE': 'UTC'})
   datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 12, 17, 40, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'UTC'>)

   >>> parse('20 mins ago EST', settings={'TIMEZONE': 'UTC'})
   datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 12, 21, 16, 0, 885091, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'UTC'>)

For more on timezones, please look at `Settings`.


Incomplete Dates
----------------

    >>> from dateparser import parse
    >>> parse(u'December 2015')  # default behavior
    datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 16, 0, 0)
    >>> parse(u'December 2015', settings={'PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH': 'last'})
    datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 31, 0, 0)
    >>> parse(u'December 2015', settings={'PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH': 'first'})
    datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 1, 0, 0)

    >>> parse(u'March')
    datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 16, 0, 0)
    >>> parse(u'March', settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'future'})
    datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 16, 0, 0)
    >>> # parsing with preference set for 'past'
    >>> parse('August', settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'past'})
    datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 15, 0, 0)

You can also ignore parsing incomplete dates altogether by setting `STRICT_PARSING` flag as follows:

    >>> parse(u'December 2015', settings={'STRICT_PARSING': True})
    None

For more on handling incomplete dates, please look at `Settings`.


Search for Dates in Longer Chunks of Text
-----------------------------------------

You can extract dates from longer strings of text. They are returned as list of tuples with text chunk containing the date and parsed datetime object.

    >>> from dateparser.search import search_dates
    >>> search_dates("The client arrived to the office for the first time in March 3rd, 2004 and got serviced, after a couple of months, on May 6th 2004, the customer returned indicating a defect on the part")
    [(u'in March 3rd, 2004 and', datetime.datetime(2004, 3, 3, 0, 0)),
     (u'on May 6th 2004', datetime.datetime(2004, 5, 6, 0, 0))]


Dependencies
============

`dateparser` relies on following libraries in some ways:

  * dateutil_'s module ``relativedelta`` for its freshness parser.
  * jdatetime_ to convert *Jalali* dates to *Gregorian*.
  * umalqurra_ to convert *Hijri* dates to *Gregorian*.
  * tzlocal_ to reliably get local timezone.
  * ruamel.yaml_ (optional) for operations on language files.

.. _dateutil: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil
.. _jdatetime: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jdatetime
.. _umalqurra: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/umalqurra/
.. _tzlocal: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tzlocal
.. _ruamel.yaml: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ruamel.yaml

Supported languages and locales
===============================

============    ================================================================
  Language            Locales
============    ================================================================
en                'en-001', 'en-150', 'en-AG', 'en-AI', 'en-AS', 'en-AT', 'en-AU', 'en-BB', 'en-BE', 'en-BI', 'en-BM', 'en-BS', 'en-BW', 'en-BZ', 'en-CA', 'en-CC', 'en-CH', 'en-CK', 'en-CM', 'en-CX', 'en-CY', 'en-DE', 'en-DG', 'en-DK', 'en-DM', 'en-ER', 'en-FI', 'en-FJ', 'en-FK', 'en-FM', 'en-GB', 'en-GD', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-GI', 'en-GM', 'en-GU', 'en-GY', 'en-HK', 'en-IE', 'en-IL', 'en-IM', 'en-IN', 'en-IO', 'en-JE', 'en-JM', 'en-KE', 'en-KI', 'en-KN', 'en-KY', 'en-LC', 'en-LR', 'en-LS', 'en-MG', 'en-MH', 'en-MO', 'en-MP', 'en-MS', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-MW', 'en-MY', 'en-NA', 'en-NF', 'en-NG', 'en-NL', 'en-NR', 'en-NU', 'en-NZ', 'en-PG', 'en-PH', 'en-PK', 'en-PN', 'en-PR', 'en-PW', 'en-RW', 'en-SB', 'en-SC', 'en-SD', 'en-SE', 'en-SG', 'en-SH', 'en-SI', 'en-SL', 'en-SS', 'en-SX', 'en-SZ', 'en-TC', 'en-TK', 'en-TO', 'en-TT', 'en-TV', 'en-TZ', 'en-UG', 'en-UM', 'en-VC', 'en-VG', 'en-VI', 'en-VU', 'en-WS', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-ZW'
zh
zh-Hans           'zh-Hans-HK', 'zh-Hans-MO', 'zh-Hans-SG'
hi
es                'es-419', 'es-AR', 'es-BO', 'es-BR', 'es-BZ', 'es-CL', 'es-CO', 'es-CR', 'es-CU', 'es-DO', 'es-EA', 'es-EC', 'es-GQ', 'es-GT', 'es-HN', 'es-IC', 'es-MX', 'es-NI', 'es-PA', 'es-PE', 'es-PH', 'es-PR', 'es-PY', 'es-SV', 'es-US', 'es-UY', 'es-VE'
ar                'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DJ', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-EH', 'ar-ER', 'ar-IL', 'ar-IQ', 'ar-JO', 'ar-KM', 'ar-KW', 'ar-LB', 'ar-LY', 'ar-MA', 'ar-MR', 'ar-OM', 'ar-PS', 'ar-QA', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SD', 'ar-SO', 'ar-SS', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TD', 'ar-TN', 'ar-YE'
bn                'bn-IN'
fr                'fr-BE', 'fr-BF', 'fr-BI', 'fr-BJ', 'fr-BL', 'fr-CA', 'fr-CD', 'fr-CF', 'fr-CG', 'fr-CH', 'fr-CI', 'fr-CM', 'fr-DJ', 'fr-DZ', 'fr-GA', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GN', 'fr-GP', 'fr-GQ', 'fr-HT', 'fr-KM', 'fr-LU', 'fr-MA', 'fr-MC', 'fr-MF', 'fr-MG', 'fr-ML', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-MR', 'fr-MU', 'fr-NC', 'fr-NE', 'fr-PF', 'fr-PM', 'fr-RE', 'fr-RW', 'fr-SC', 'fr-SN', 'fr-SY', 'fr-TD', 'fr-TG', 'fr-TN', 'fr-VU', 'fr-WF', 'fr-YT'
ur                'ur-IN'
pt                'pt-AO', 'pt-CH', 'pt-CV', 'pt-GQ', 'pt-GW', 'pt-LU', 'pt-MO', 'pt-MZ', 'pt-PT', 'pt-ST', 'pt-TL'
ru                'ru-BY', 'ru-KG', 'ru-KZ', 'ru-MD', 'ru-UA'
id
sw                'sw-CD', 'sw-KE', 'sw-UG'
pa-Arab
de                'de-AT', 'de-BE', 'de-CH', 'de-IT', 'de-LI', 'de-LU'
ja
te
mr
vi
fa                'fa-AF'
ta                'ta-LK', 'ta-MY', 'ta-SG'
tr                'tr-CY'
yue
ko                'ko-KP'
it                'it-CH', 'it-SM', 'it-VA'
fil
gu
th
kn
ps
zh-Hant           'zh-Hant-HK', 'zh-Hant-MO'
ml
or
pl
my
pa
pa-Guru
am
om                'om-KE'
ha                'ha-GH', 'ha-NE'
nl                'nl-AW', 'nl-BE', 'nl-BQ', 'nl-CW', 'nl-SR', 'nl-SX'
uk
uz
uz-Latn
yo                'yo-BJ'
ms                'ms-BN', 'ms-SG'
ig
ro                'ro-MD'
mg
ne                'ne-IN'
as
so                'so-DJ', 'so-ET', 'so-KE'
si
km
zu
cs
sv                'sv-AX', 'sv-FI'
hu
el                'el-CY'
sn
kk
rw
ckb               'ckb-IR'
qu                'qu-BO', 'qu-EC'
ak
be
ti                'ti-ER'
az
az-Latn
af                'af-NA'
ca                'ca-AD', 'ca-FR', 'ca-IT'
sr-Latn           'sr-Latn-BA', 'sr-Latn-ME', 'sr-Latn-XK'
ii
he
bg
bm
ki
gsw               'gsw-FR', 'gsw-LI'
sr
sr-Cyrl           'sr-Cyrl-BA', 'sr-Cyrl-ME', 'sr-Cyrl-XK'
ug
zgh
ff                'ff-CM', 'ff-GN', 'ff-MR'
rn
da                'da-GL'
hr                'hr-BA'
sq                'sq-MK', 'sq-XK'
sk
fi
ks
hy
nb                'nb-SJ'
luy
lg
lo
bem
kok
luo
uz-Cyrl
ka
ee                'ee-TG'
mzn
bs-Cyrl
bs
bs-Latn
kln
kam
gl
tzm
dje
kab
bo                'bo-IN'
shi-Latn
shi
shi-Tfng
mn
ln                'ln-AO', 'ln-CF', 'ln-CG'
ky
sg
lt
nyn
guz
cgg
xog
lrc               'lrc-IQ'
mer
lu
sl
teo               'teo-KE'
brx
nd
mk
uz-Arab
mas               'mas-TZ'
nn
kde
mfe
lv
seh
mgh
az-Cyrl
ga
eu
yi
ce
et
ksb
bez
ewo
fy
ebu
nus
ast
asa
ses
os                'os-RU'
br
cy
kea
lag
sah
mt
vun
rof
jmc
lb
dav
dyo
dz
nnh
is
khq
bas
naq
mua
ksh
saq
se                'se-FI', 'se-SE'
dua
rwk
mgo
sbp
to
jgo
ksf
fo                'fo-DK'
gd
kl
rm
fur
agq
haw
chr
hsb
wae
nmg
lkt
twq
dsb
yav
kw
gv
smn
eo
tl
============    ================================================================


Supported Calendars
===================
* Gregorian calendar.

* Persian Jalali calendar. For more information, refer to `Persian Jalali Calendar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_calendars#Zoroastrian_calendar>`_.

* Hijri/Islamic Calendar. For more information, refer to `Hijri Calendar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar>`_.

	>>> from dateparser.calendars.jalali import JalaliCalendar
	>>> JalaliCalendar(u'جمعه سی ام اسفند ۱۳۸۷').get_date()
	{'date_obj': datetime.datetime(2009, 3, 20, 0, 0), 'period': 'day'}

        >>> from dateparser.calendars.hijri import HijriCalendar
        >>> HijriCalendar(u'17-01-1437 هـ 08:30 مساءً').get_date()
        {'date_obj': datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 30, 20, 30), 'period': 'day'}

.. note:: `HijriCalendar` has some limitations with Python 3.
.. note:: For `Finnish` language, please specify `settings={'SKIP_TOKENS': []}` to correctly parse freshness dates.


Install using following command to use calendars.

.. tip::
   pip install dateparser[calendars]


.. :changelog:

History
=======

0.7.0 (2018-02-08)
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Features added during Google Summer of Code 2017:
* Harvesting language data from Unicode CLDR database (https://github.com/unicode-cldr/cldr-json), which includes over 200 locales (#321) - authored by Sarthak Maddan.
See full currently supported locale list in README.
* Extracting dates from longer strings of text (#324) - authored by Elena Zakharova.
Special thanks for their awesome contributions!


New features:
* Added (independently from CLDR) Georgian (#308) and Swedish (#305)

Improvements:
* Improved support of Chinese (#359), Thai (#345), French (#301, #304), Russian (#302)
* Removed ruamel.yaml from dependencies (#374). This should reduce the number of installation issues and improve performance as the result of moving away from YAML as basic data storage format.
Note that YAML is still used as format for support language files.
* Improved performance through using pre-compiling frequent regexes and lazy loading of data (#293, #294, #295, #315)
* Extended tests (#316, #317, #318, #323)
* Updated nose_parameterized to its current package, parameterized (#381)


Planned for next release:
* Full language and locale names
* Performance and stability improvements
* Documentation improvements


0.6.0 (2017-03-13)
------------------

New features:
* Consistent parsing in terms of true python representation of date string. See #281
* Added support for Bangla, Bulgarian and Hindi languages.

Improvements:

* Major bug fixes related to parser and system's locale. See #277, #282
* Type check for timezone arguments in settings. see #267
* Pinned dependencies' versions in requirements. See #265
* Improved support for cn, es, dutch languages. See #274, #272, #285

Packaging:
* Make calendars extras to be used at the time of installation if need to use calendars feature.


0.5.1 (2016-12-18)
------------------

New features:

* Added support for Hebrew

Improvements:

* Safer loading of YAML. See #251
* Better timezone parsing for freshness dates. See #256
* Pinned dependencies' versions in requirements. See #265
* Improved support for zh, fi languages. See #249, #250, #248, #244


0.5.0 (2016-09-26)
------------------
New features:

* `DateDataParser` now also returns detected language in the result dictionary.
* Explicit and lucid timezone conversion for a given datestring using `TIMEZONE`, `TO_TIMEZONE` settings.
* Added Hungarian langauge.
* Added setting, `STRICT_PARSING` to ignore imcomplete dates.

Improvements:

* Fixed quite a few parser bugs reported in issues #219, #222, #207, #224.
* Improved support for chinese language.
* Consistent interface for both Jalali and Hijri parsers.


0.4.0 (2016-06-17)
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New features:

* Support for Language based date order preference while parsing ambiguous dates.
* Support for parsing dates with no spaces in between components.
* Support for custom date order preference using `settings`.
* Support for parsing generic relative dates in future.e.g. `tomorrow`, `in two weeks`, etc.
* Added `RELATIVE_BASE` settings to set date context to any datetime in past or future.
* Replaced dateutil.parser.parse with dateparser's own parser.

Improvements:

* Added simplifications for `12 noon` and `12 midnight`.
* Fixed several bugs
* Replaced PyYAML library by its active fork `ruamel.yaml` which also fixed the issues with installation on windows using python35.
* More predictable `date_formats` handling.


0.3.5 (2016-04-27)
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New features:

* Danish language support.
* Japanese language support.
* Support for parsing date strings with accents.

Improvements:

* Transformed languages.yaml into base file and separate files for each language.
* Fixed vietnamese language simplifications.
* No more version restrictions for python-dateutil.
* Timezone parsing improvements.
* Fixed test environments.
* Cleaned language codes. Now we strictly follow codes as in ISO 639-1.
* Improved chinese dates parsing.


0.3.4 (2016-03-03)
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Improvements:

* Fixed broken version 0.3.3 by excluding latest python-dateutil version.

0.3.3 (2016-02-29)
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New features:

* Finnish language support.

Improvements:

* Faster parsing with switching to regex module.
* `RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE` setting to return tz aware date object.
* Fixed conflicts with month/weekday names similarity across languages.

0.3.2 (2016-01-25)
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New features:

* Added Hijri Calendar support.
* Added settings for better control over parsing dates.
* Support to convert parsed time to the given timezone for both complete and relative dates.

Improvements:

* Fixed problem with caching `datetime.now` in `FreshnessDateDataParser`.
* Added month names and week day names abbreviations to several languages.
* More simplifications for Russian and Ukranian languages.
* Fixed problem with parsing time component of date strings with several kinds of apostrophes.


0.3.1 (2015-10-28)
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New features:

* Support for Jalali Calendar.
* Belarusian language support.
* Indonesian language support.


Improvements:

* Extended support for Russian and Polish.
* Fixed bug with time zone recognition.
* Fixed bug with incorrect translation of "second" for Portuguese.


0.3.0 (2015-07-29)
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New features:

* Compatibility with Python 3 and PyPy.

Improvements:

* `languages.yaml` data cleaned up to make it human-readable.
* Improved Spanish date parsing.


0.2.1 (2015-07-13)
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* Support for generic parsing of dates with UTC offset.
* Support for Tagalog/Filipino dates.
* Improved support for French and Spanish dates.


0.2.0 (2015-06-17)
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* Easy to use `parse` function
* Languages definitions using YAML.
* Using translation based approach for parsing non-english languages. Previously, `dateutil.parserinfo` was used for language definitions.
* Better period extraction.
* Improved tests.
* Added a number of new simplifications for more comprehensive generic parsing.
* Improved validation for dates.
* Support for Polish, Thai and Arabic dates.
* Support for `pytz` timezones.
* Fixed building and packaging issues.


0.1.0 (2014-11-24)
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* First release on PyPI.