Unable to understand the context

[rpalsaxena]

I tried to test the library on this:

from price_parser import parse_price
parse_price("The price of 2000 plates is $13,004")

Output:

Price(amount=Decimal('2000'), currency='$')

It's unable to understand the context. I have gone through the code in parser.py, it's using regex to extract prices as well as the currency symbol.
Could you please share the vision of creating this library?

1. Was it to process a column of a database that contains the prices like this:
   

This way it can definitely resolve the minor human errors and help data scientists while preprocessing.

Or
The plan was to create a library that can extract prices from normal text like this:
"The price of 2000 plates is $13,004"?

[Gallaecio]

I believe your use case is within the scope of the library.

[lopuhin]

I think support of inputs like "The price of 2000 plates is $13,004" could require a very different approach from what is currently implemented, although it would be nice to have.

To provide more context, this library was primarily developed to parse prices coming from website elements, where usually an element contains only the price with little extra text, while this example with a free-form text is more like a NER (named entity recognition) followed by price extraction.

[rpalsaxena]

That makes sense @lopuhin !
Using the library for extracting the price from an HTML element with some noise is a reasonable choice.

[lopuhin]

Let's keep the issue open in case we can support this or someone has other opinion.

[Gallaecio]

Oh, I thought we had merged it already: #5 may fix this.

[Ayush-iitkgp]

Hey @Gallaecio, could you please review and merge the pull request (#5), I am running into similar problems. It might help me as well :)
TIA!