parsedatetime uses a standard setup.py install method: pip install parsedatetime This will install parsedatetime into your Python's site-packages location and make it available for import'ing Python 2.6+ is required now for parsedatetime 1.+ parsedatetime is a pure Python module so it does not require any compiler build step. parsedatetime does not depend on any external library/module but will use the following if available: PyICU (which depends on ICU)