Flexible English phrase for Python?

Question

I am looking for a function that can convert an English date phrase into some Python date object representing the corresponding date.

An example of what I'm looking for (although I'm flexible):

• After three days
• yesterday
• In a month
• Next year
• January 18, 2011
• Next Wednesday

Is there such a thing? Is this possible in another language?

Answer 1

parsedatetime, always classic: http://code.google.com/p/parsedatetime/

Answer 2

I think the best choice here would be mxDateTime . The documentation seems to suggest that it does what you are looking for.