From d10435cd213aba4bce010fa98640a22fcd511432 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MajorTanya <github@majortanya.eu>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:56:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix dateparser search_dates: also returns None

dateparser.search.search_dates will return None if no parseable date
could be found in the `text` argument.

This is explained in the original docstring as well.

Closes #15538.
---
 stubs/dateparser/dateparser/search/__init__.pyi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stubs/dateparser/dateparser/search/__init__.pyi b/stubs/dateparser/dateparser/search/__init__.pyi
index a30045a570c3..d6eb3182de64 100644
--- a/stubs/dateparser/dateparser/search/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stubs/dateparser/dateparser/search/__init__.pyi
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def search_dates(
     settings: Settings | dict[str, Any] | None,
     add_detected_language: Literal[True],
     detect_languages_function: _DetectLanguagesFunction | None = None,
-) -> list[tuple[str, datetime, str]]: ...
+) -> list[tuple[str, datetime, str]] | None: ...
 @overload
 def search_dates(
     text: str,
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ def search_dates(
     settings: Settings | dict[str, Any] | None = None,
     add_detected_language: Literal[False] = False,
     detect_languages_function: _DetectLanguagesFunction | None = None,
-) -> list[tuple[str, datetime]]: ...
+) -> list[tuple[str, datetime]] | None: ...