Method _parse

src/dateutil/parser/_parser.py:666–873

Private method which performs the heavy lifting of parsing, called from ``parse()``, which passes on its ``kwargs`` to this function. :param timestr: The string to parse. :param dayfirst: Whether to interpret the first value in an ambiguous

(self, timestr, dayfirst=None, yearfirst=None, fuzzy=False,
               fuzzy_with_tokens=False)

                     "tzname", "tzoffset", "ampm","any_unused_tokens"]

    def _parse(self, timestr, dayfirst=None, yearfirst=None, fuzzy=False,
               fuzzy_with_tokens=False):
        """
        Private method which performs the heavy lifting of parsing, called from
        ``parse()``, which passes on its ``kwargs`` to this function.

        :param timestr:
            The string to parse.

        :param dayfirst:
            Whether to interpret the first value in an ambiguous 3-integer date
            (e.g. 01/05/09) as the day (``True``) or month (``False``). If
            ``yearfirst`` is set to ``True``, this distinguishes between YDM
            and YMD. If set to ``None``, this value is retrieved from the
            current :class:`parserinfo` object (which itself defaults to
            ``False``).

        :param yearfirst:
            Whether to interpret the first value in an ambiguous 3-integer date
            (e.g. 01/05/09) as the year. If ``True``, the first number is taken
            to be the year, otherwise the last number is taken to be the year.
            If this is set to ``None``, the value is retrieved from the current
            :class:`parserinfo` object (which itself defaults to ``False``).

        :param fuzzy:
            Whether to allow fuzzy parsing, allowing for string like "Today is
            January 1, 2047 at 8:21:00AM".

        :param fuzzy_with_tokens:
            If ``True``, ``fuzzy`` is automatically set to True, and the parser
            will return a tuple where the first element is the parsed
            :class:`datetime.datetime` datetimestamp and the second element is
            a tuple containing the portions of the string which were ignored:

            .. doctest::

                >>> from dateutil.parser import parse
                >>> parse("Today is January 1, 2047 at 8:21:00AM", fuzzy_with_tokens=True)
                (datetime.datetime(2047, 1, 1, 8, 21), (u'Today is ', u' ', u'at '))

        """
        if fuzzy_with_tokens:
            fuzzy = True

        info = self.info

        if dayfirst is None:
            dayfirst = info.dayfirst

        if yearfirst is None:
            yearfirst = info.yearfirst

        res = self._result()
        l = _timelex.split(timestr)         # Splits the timestr into tokens

        skipped_idxs = []

        # year/month/day list