dateparser 1.0.0

Release 1.0.0

on Python PyPI

Breaking changes:

• Drop support for Python 2.7 and pypy (see #727, #744, #748, #749, #754, #755, #758, #761, #763, #764, #777 and #783)
• Now DateDataParser.get_date_data() returns a DateData object instead of a dict (see #778).
• From now wrong settings are not silenced and raise SettingValidationError (see #797)
• Now dateparser.parse() is deterministic and doesn't try previous locales. Also, DateDataParser.get_date_data() doesn't try the previous locales by default (see #781)
• Remove the 'base-formats' parser (see #721)
• Extract the 'no-spaces-time' parser from the 'absolute-time' parser and make it an optional parser (see #786)
• Remove numeral_translation_data (see #782)
• Remove the undocumented SKIP_TOKENS_PARSER and FUZZY settings (see #728, #794)
• Remove support for using strings in date_formats (see #726)
• The undocumented ExactLanguageSearch class has been moved to the private scope and some internal methods have changed (see #778)
• Changes in dateparser.utils: normalize_unicode() doesn't accept bytes as input and convert_to_unicode has been deprecated (see #749)

New features:

• Add Python 3.9 support (see #732, #823)
• Detect hours separated with a period/dot (see #741)
• Add support for "decade" (see #762)
• Add support for the hijri calendar in Python ≥ 3.6 (see #718)

Improvements:

• New logo! (see #719)
• Improve the README and docs (see #779, #722)
• Fix the "calendars" extra (see #740)
• Fix leap years when PREFER_DATES_FROM is set (see #738)
• Fix STRICT_PARSING setting in no-spaces-time parser (see #715)
• Consider RETURN_AS_TIME_PERIOD setting for relative-time parser (see #807)
• Parse the 24hr time format with meridian info (see #634)
• Other small improvements (see #698, #709, #710, #712, #730, #731, #735, #739, #784, #788, #795 and #801)