comparison mercurial/util.py @ 18537:ae60735e37d2

dates: support 'today' and 'yesterday' in parsedate (issue3764)

Adding support to parsedate in util module to understand the more idiomatic
dates 'today' and 'yesterday'.

Added unified tests and docstring tests for added functionality.

18536:ae645d4f084c

def parsedate(date, formats=None, bias={}):
    """parse a localized date/time and return a (unixtime, offset) tuple.

    The date may be a "unixtime offset" string or in one of the specified
    formats. If the date already is a (unixtime, offset) tuple, it is returned.
    """
    if not date:
        return 0, 0
    if isinstance(date, tuple) and len(date) == 2:
        return date
    if not formats:
        formats = defaultdateformats
    date = date.strip()
    try:
        when, offset = map(int, date.split(' '))
    except ValueError:
        # fill out defaults
        now = makedate()

18537:ae60735e37d2

def parsedate(date, formats=None, bias={}):
    """parse a localized date/time and return a (unixtime, offset) tuple.

    The date may be a "unixtime offset" string or in one of the specified
    formats. If the date already is a (unixtime, offset) tuple, it is returned.

    >>> parsedate(' today ') == parsedate(\
                                  datetime.date.today().strftime('%b %d'))
    True
    >>> parsedate( 'yesterday ') == parsedate((datetime.date.today() -\
                                               datetime.timedelta(days=1)\
                                              ).strftime('%b %d'))
    True
    """
    if not date:
        return 0, 0
    if isinstance(date, tuple) and len(date) == 2:
        return date
    if not formats:
        formats = defaultdateformats
    date = date.strip()

    if date == _('today'):
        date = datetime.date.today().strftime('%b %d')
    elif date == _('yesterday'):
        date = (datetime.date.today() -
                datetime.timedelta(days=1)).strftime('%b %d')

    try:
        when, offset = map(int, date.split(' '))
    except ValueError:
        # fill out defaults
        now = makedate()