Why is the init argument being presented with an unexpected keyword?

Question

I am trying to use the datefinder module with UK settings (i.e. day first in dates). I can see from the code that __init__ contains an option for first, defaulting to "month" (see below). This, I wish to change.

class DateFinder(object):
    """
    Locates dates in a text
    """

    def __init__(self, base_date=None, first="month"):
...

Source: datefinder GitHub repo

I have tried the below code, but it returns an error. Any thoughts where I am going wrong?

from datefinder import DateFinder

testString = 'here is some random text with a date of 2/11/1985 sat in the middle'
matches = DateFinder(first="day").find_dates(testString,index=True,source=True)

for match in matches:
  print(match)

TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'first'

Answer 1

The version from PyPi (i.e. pip install datefinder) seems to be out of date from the GitHub src you linked. When I run help(DateFinder.__init__) I see __init__(self, base_date=None) note that there is indeed no first kwarg like in the linked src. Specifically that kwarg was added on Aug 2, 2020 github.com/akoumjian/datefinder/commit/... and the most recent Release was v0.7.1 on May 27, 2020 so there have been no recent releases that include that change

-- comment by Cory Kramer