python x days ago to datetime

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I have strings that show a date in the following format:

x minutes/hours/days/months/years ago
 

Now if I need to parse that to a datetime using python, how should I do it?
Feb 26, 2019 in Python by ana1504.k
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You just need a timedelta and try the following :

s = "3 days ago"
parsed_s = [s.split()[:2]]
time_dict = dict((fmt,float(amount)) for amount,fmt in parsed_s)
dt = datetime.timedelta(**time_dict)
past_time = datetime.datetime.now() - dt
 

As an aside, it looks like dateutil has a relativedelta which acts like a timedelta, but the constructor also accepts months and years in the arguments
answered Feb 26, 2019 by SDeb
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