Parse any date easily

Use dateutil.parser.parse, possibly with the fuzzy flag set to True.

>>> from dateutil.parser import parse

>>> parse("Jan. 1st, 1991", fuzzy=True)

datetime.datetime(1991, 1, 1, 0, 0)

This is a huge boon over the tedious and underfeatured time.strptime and similar. Unhelpfully, the documentation is non-existent.