import re import humanfriendly SYSTEMCTL_TIMESPAN_RE = re.compile(r'([0-9]+((\s[a-z]*)|([a-z]+)))') def parse_systemctl_time_delta(time_str: str): """ https://humanfriendly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?highlight=parse_timespan#humanfriendly.parse_timespan """ time_str = time_str.replace(' left', '').replace(' ago', '') spans = [] for part in re.findall(SYSTEMCTL_TIMESPAN_RE, time_str): delta = part[0] if 'month' in delta: # humanfriendly does not support "months" so we convert it to weeks num = int(delta.split(' ')[0]) delta = f'{num * 4} weeks' try: spans.append(humanfriendly.parse_timespan(delta)) except humanfriendly.InvalidTimespan as e: return e return sum(spans)