def clean_text(
self,
text: str,
fuzzy: bool = False,
format: Optional[str] = None,
proxy: Optional["EntityProxy"] = None,
) -> Optional[str]:
"""The classic: date parsing, every which way."""
if format is not None:
return parse_format(text, format).text
return parse(text).text
def to_datetime(self, value: str) -> Optional[datetime]:
return parse(value).dt
def validate(self, value: str) -> bool:
"""Check if a thing is a valid date."""
prefix = parse(value)
return prefix.precision != Precision.EMPTY