from __future__ import print_function from __future__ import unicode_literals from builtins import str, bytes, dict, int import os import sys sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..")) from pattern.db import date, time, NOW from pattern.web import Bing, NEWS # It is often useful to keep a date stamp for each row in the table. # The pattern.db module's date() function can be used for this. # It is a simple wrapper around Python's datetime.datetime class, # with extra functionality to make it easy to parse or print it as a string. print(date(NOW)) print(date()) print(date("2010-11-01 16:30", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")) print(date("Nov 1, 2010", "%b %d, %Y")) print(date("Nov 1, 2010", "%b %d, %Y", format="%d/%m/%Y")) print("") # All possible formatting options: # http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime for r in Bing(license=None, language="en").search("today", type=NEWS): print(r.title) print(repr(r.date)) # Result.date is a string (e.g. we can't > <= += with the date). print(date(r.date)) # date() can parse any Result.date in the web module. print("") d = date("4 november 2011") d += time(days=2, hours=5) print(d)