familyTree/findYear.py

   1 #!/usr/bin/python
   2
   3 import re
   4
   5 def find_year(date):
   6
   7         dates = date.split('/')
   8
   9         if len(dates)==3:
  10                 return dates[2]
  11
  12         if len(dates)==2:
  13                 return dates[1]
  14
  15         if len(dates)==1:
  16                 parts = date.split('-')
  17
  18                 matches = re.search('[0-9]{1,4}',parts[0])
  19                 if matches==None:
  20                         return 0
  21                 else:
  22                         return matches.group(0)
  23
  24         return 0
  25
  26