How do I get the text after a date using python?

Question

I have a string which might have a date of some form inside it.

I want to extract the portion appearing just after that date.

For example:

s = "The term starts on Jan 1, 2000 and terminates on"

should return

output = "and terminates on"

My suggestion would be

s[s.find(', 2') + 6]

Answer 1

Try using dateutil with fuzzy_with_tokens=True

Ex:

from dateutil.parser import parse
s = "The term starts on Jan 1, 2000 and terminates on"
print(parse(s, fuzzy_with_tokens=True))

Output:

(datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 1, 0, 0), ('The term starts on ', ' ', ' ', 'and terminates on'))