check if a string can be converted into date or not python
from dateutil.parser import parse
def is_date(string, fuzzy=False):
"""
Return whether the string can be interpreted as a date.
:param string: str, string to check for date
:param fuzzy: bool, ignore unknown tokens in string if True
"""
try:
parse(string, fuzzy=fuzzy)
return True
except ValueError:
return False