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copied!<p>I'm trying to learn python after spending the last 15 or so years working only in Perl and only occasionally.</p> <p>I can't understand how to handle the two different kinds of results from the parse method of Calendar.parse() from parsedatetime</p> <p>Given this script:</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python import parsedatetime.parsedatetime as pdt import parsedatetime.parsedatetime_consts as pdc import sys import os # create an instance of Constants class so we can override some of the defaults c = pdc.Constants() # create an instance of the Calendar class and pass in our Constants # object instead of letting it create a default p = pdt.Calendar(c) while True: reply = raw_input('Enter text:') if reply == 'stop': break else: result = p.parse(reply) print result print </code></pre> <p>And this sample run:</p> <blockquote> <p>Enter text:tomorrow<br> (time.struct_time(tm_year=2009, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=28, tm_hour=9, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=332, tm_isdst=-1), 1) </p> <p>Enter text:11/28<br> ((2009, 11, 28, 14, 42, 55, 4, 331, 0), 1) </p> </blockquote> <p>I can't figure out how to get the output such that I can consisently use result like so:</p> <pre><code>print result[0].tm_mon, result[0].tm_mday </code></pre> <p>That won't work in the case where the input is "11/28" because the output is just a tuple and not a struct_time. </p> <p>Probably a simple thing.. but not for this newbie. From my perspective the output of Calendar.parse() is unpredictable and hard to use. Any help appreciated. Tia.</p>

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