def parse()

in lib/dateutil/parser.py [0:0]


    def parse(self, timestr, default=None, ignoretz=False, tzinfos=None, **kwargs):
        """
        Parse the date/time string into a :class:`datetime.datetime` object.

        :param timestr:
            Any date/time string using the supported formats.

        :param default:
            The default datetime object, if this is a datetime object and not
            ``None``, elements specified in ``timestr`` replace elements in the
            default object.

        :param ignoretz:
            If set ``True``, time zones in parsed strings are ignored and a
            naive :class:`datetime.datetime` object is returned.

        :param tzinfos:
            Additional time zone names / aliases which may be present in the
            string. This argument maps time zone names (and optionally offsets
            from those time zones) to time zones. This parameter can be a
            dictionary with timezone aliases mapping time zone names to time
            zones or a function taking two parameters (``tzname`` and
            ``tzoffset``) and returning a time zone.

            The timezones to which the names are mapped can be an integer
            offset from UTC in minutes or a :class:`tzinfo` object.

            .. doctest::
               :options: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE

                >>> from dateutil.parser import parse
                >>> from dateutil.tz import gettz
                >>> tzinfos = {"BRST": -10800, "CST": gettz("America/Chicago")}
                >>> parse("2012-01-19 17:21:00 BRST", tzinfos=tzinfos)
                datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 19, 17, 21, tzinfo=tzoffset(u'BRST', -10800))
                >>> parse("2012-01-19 17:21:00 CST", tzinfos=tzinfos)
                datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 19, 17, 21,
                                  tzinfo=tzfile('/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago'))

            This parameter is ignored if ``ignoretz`` is set.

        :param **kwargs:
            Keyword arguments as passed to ``_parse()``.

        :return:
            Returns a :class:`datetime.datetime` object or, if the
            ``fuzzy_with_tokens`` option is ``True``, returns a tuple, the
            first element being a :class:`datetime.datetime` object, the second
            a tuple containing the fuzzy tokens.

        :raises ValueError:
            Raised for invalid or unknown string format, if the provided
            :class:`tzinfo` is not in a valid format, or if an invalid date
            would be created.

        :raises TypeError:
            Raised for non-string or character stream input.

        :raises OverflowError:
            Raised if the parsed date exceeds the largest valid C integer on
            your system.
        """

        if default is None:
            effective_dt = datetime.datetime.now()
            default = datetime.datetime.now().replace(hour=0, minute=0,
                                                      second=0, microsecond=0)
        else:
            effective_dt = default

        res, skipped_tokens = self._parse(timestr, **kwargs)

        if res is None:
            raise ValueError("Unknown string format")

        if len(res) == 0:
            raise ValueError("String does not contain a date.")

        repl = {}
        for attr in ("year", "month", "day", "hour",
                     "minute", "second", "microsecond"):
            value = getattr(res, attr)
            if value is not None:
                repl[attr] = value

        if 'day' not in repl:
            # If the default day exceeds the last day of the month, fall back to
            # the end of the month.
            cyear = default.year if res.year is None else res.year
            cmonth = default.month if res.month is None else res.month
            cday = default.day if res.day is None else res.day

            if cday > monthrange(cyear, cmonth)[1]:
                repl['day'] = monthrange(cyear, cmonth)[1]

        ret = default.replace(**repl)

        if res.weekday is not None and not res.day:
            ret = ret+relativedelta.relativedelta(weekday=res.weekday)

        if not ignoretz:
            if (isinstance(tzinfos, collections.Callable) or
                    tzinfos and res.tzname in tzinfos):

                if isinstance(tzinfos, collections.Callable):
                    tzdata = tzinfos(res.tzname, res.tzoffset)
                else:
                    tzdata = tzinfos.get(res.tzname)

                if isinstance(tzdata, datetime.tzinfo):
                    tzinfo = tzdata
                elif isinstance(tzdata, text_type):
                    tzinfo = tz.tzstr(tzdata)
                elif isinstance(tzdata, integer_types):
                    tzinfo = tz.tzoffset(res.tzname, tzdata)
                else:
                    raise ValueError("Offset must be tzinfo subclass, "
                                     "tz string, or int offset.")
                ret = ret.replace(tzinfo=tzinfo)
            elif res.tzname and res.tzname in time.tzname:
                ret = ret.replace(tzinfo=tz.tzlocal())
            elif res.tzoffset == 0:
                ret = ret.replace(tzinfo=tz.tzutc())
            elif res.tzoffset:
                ret = ret.replace(tzinfo=tz.tzoffset(res.tzname, res.tzoffset))

        if kwargs.get('fuzzy_with_tokens', False):
            return ret, skipped_tokens
        else:
            return ret