# parseActions.py # # A sample program a parser to match a date string of the form "YYYY/MM/DD", # and return it as a datetime, or raise an exception if not a valid date. # # Copyright 2012, Paul T. McGuire # from datetime import datetime from pyparsing import * # define an integer string, and a parse action to convert it # to an integer at parse time integer = Word(nums).setName("integer") def convertToInt(tokens): # no need to test for validity - we can't get here # unless tokens[0] contains all numeric digits return int(tokens[0]) integer.setParseAction(convertToInt) # or can be written as one line as #integer = Word(nums).setParseAction(lambda t: int(t[0])) # define a pattern for a year/month/day date date_expr = integer('year') + '/' + integer('month') + '/' + integer('day') date_expr.ignore(pythonStyleComment) def convertToDatetime(s,loc,tokens): try: # note that the year, month, and day fields were already # converted to ints from strings by the parse action defined # on the integer expression above return datetime(tokens.year, tokens.month, tokens.day).date() except Exception as ve: errmsg = "'%s/%s/%s' is not a valid date, %s" % \ (tokens.year, tokens.month, tokens.day, ve) raise ParseException(s, loc, errmsg) date_expr.setParseAction(convertToDatetime) date_expr.runTests("""\ 2000/1/1 2000/13/1 # invalid month 1900/2/29 # 1900 was not a leap year 2000/2/29 # but 2000 was """) # if dates conform to ISO8601, use definitions in pyparsing_common date_expr = pyparsing_common.iso8601_date.setParseAction(pyparsing_common.convertToDate()) date_expr.ignore(pythonStyleComment) date_expr.runTests("""\ 2000-01-01 2000-13-01 # invalid month 1900-02-29 # 1900 was not a leap year 2000-02-29 # but 2000 was """)