localized date parsing

localized_strptime.py

import dateutil.parser
from babel.core import Locale

class LocalizedParserinfo(dateutil.parser.parserinfo):

    def __init__(self, locale):
        locale = Locale.parse(locale)
        # Build localized list of words, remove dots
        self.WEEKDAYS = [(locale.days['format']['wide'][i],
                          locale.days['format']['abbreviated'][i].rstrip('.'))
                          for i in range(7)]
        self.MONTHS = [(locale.months['format']['wide'][i],
                        locale.months['format']['abbreviated'][i].rstrip('.'))
                        for i in range(1, 13)]
        super(LocalizedParserinfo, self).__init__()

    def __call__(self):
        return self


class DatetimeParser(object):

    def __init__(self, locale):
        self.info = LocalizedParserinfo(locale)

    def parse(self, s):
        return dateutil.parser.parse(s, parserinfo=self.info)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    sample = u'14/Févr./2013 10:55:50'
    result = DatetimeParser('fr_FR').parse(sample)
    print(result)