One skill a day: Convert the time described in natural language into a standard format

Original link: https://www.kingname.info/2022/07/13/nlp-datetime/

If you’ve used Tick List or Todoist, you should know that they have a very useful feature, which is to automatically recognize the time in tasks, such as:

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 Email the boss next Tuesday at 3pm

It is automatically recognized as:

Today, in the official account fan group, a classmate named NowAnti recommended a project called Sinan , which can make Python realize such a function.

Let’s take a look at how this third-party library is used. First pip install it:

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 python3 -m pip install sinan

After the installation is complete, the usage method is very simple:

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 from sinan import Sinan
 obj = Sinan( 'Send an email to the boss at 3pm next Tuesday' )
 result = obj.parse()
 print(result)

The operation effect is shown in the following figure:

Not only can this library parse time, it can also parse more complex statements such as:

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 >>> obj = Sinan( 'Pick up 10 kilograms of gifts at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, walk 2 kilometers west, wait in place for 3 hours, if the temperature is lower than 16 degrees, call me, my cell phone No. is: 16758493028' )
 >>> obj.parse()

The operation effect is shown in the following figure:

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