Handling dates with Python’s maya package
Background In this package we'll discuss Python's maya package for parsing dates from strings. A previous article talked about the dateutil and dateparser libraries for finding dates in strings. maya is really great for standardizing variations in a field or list of dates. maya can be installed using pip: pip install maya Standardizing dates with maya Let's start with a basic example. First, we just need to import maya. Next, we'll use its parse method to convert the text into a MayaDT object. We can append the datetime method to this to get a datetime from the string. Below are several more examples of different date variations. All of the above comes in handy if you're dealing with a list of date strings that you need to standardize. Suppose, for…