Parse human-readable dates in French

parsedatetime_pdtLocale_fr.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26294333/parse-french-date-in-python
"""
import parsedatetime as pdt

class pdtLocale_fr(pdt.pdt_locales.pdtLocale_icu):
    def __init__(self):
        super(pdtLocale_fr, self).__init__(localeID='fr_FR')
        self.dayOffsets.update({u"aujourd'hui": 0, u'demain': 1, u'hier': -1})

pdt.pdtLocales['fr_FR'] = pdtLocale_fr

calendar = pdt.Calendar(pdt.Constants(localeID='fr_FR', usePyICU=False))
for date_string in [u"Aujourd'hui", "3 juillet", u"4 Août", u"Hier",
                    u"au jour de hui", u"aujour-d’hui",
                    u"au-jour-d’hui", "demain", "hier",
                    u"today", "tomorrow", "yesterday"]:
    dt, rc = calendar.parseDT(date_string)
    if rc > 0:
       print(date_string, dt.date())