I would like to parse free-text time intervals like the following, using Python:
- 1 second
- 2 minutes
- 3 hours
- 4 days
- 5 weeks
- 6 months
- 7 years
Is there a painless way to do this, ideally by simply calling a library function?
I have tried:
dateutil.parser.parse()
, which understands seconds through hours but not days or more.mx.DateTime.DateTimeDeltaFrom()
, which understands through days but fails on weeks or higher, and silently (e.g., it might create an interval of length 0, or parse "2 months" as 2 minutes).