🔒 Outdated CS50p

[glacial flume]

I am doing the course CS50p by Harvard and there is a problem called outdated and below is the problem attached

Can anyone tell me how to do it but not give the answer i am trying to figure out what to do but i dont get it
At first i thought of finding out if specific things like “-” or months are present by converting the input into list but i have a feeling thats wrong can someone help please

[stable jasper]

@glacial flume

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[bright sapphire]

1. create a function which parses a date given in 9/8/1636 format - assuming the provided string is in that format
2. similarly, create a function which parses a date given in September 8, 1636 format
3. try to call functions (1) and (2), accept the results from whichever function didn't throw an error. If both failed, the input was invalid
4. use whichever valid results to format the resultant date

something like this

try:
  year, month, day = parse_slashes(inputted_value) # 9/8/1636
except:
  pass

try:
  year, month, day = parse_english(inputted_value) # September 8, 1636
except:
  pass

print(f"The date is: {year}-{month}-{day}")

I left out the error handling because you only asked for a hint

@glacial flume

[void hornet]

wouldn't hurt trying to learn regex for this one I think? try to match the two different formats, if both return nothing, then it's unlikely to be in those formats

[stable jasper]

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