new_contents: 
  """
  Test parsing of strings that are phrases
  """
  
  import unittest, time, datetime
  import parsedatetime as pdt
  
  
  # a special compare function for nlp returned data
  def _compareResults(result, check, dateOnly=False, debug=False):
      target = result
      value = check
  
      if target is None and value is None:
          return True
  
      if (target is None and value is not None) or (target is not None and value is None):
          return False
  
      if len(target) != len(value):
          return False
  
      for i in range(0, len(target)):
          target_date = target[i][0]
          value_date = value[i][0]
  
          if target_date.year != value_date.year or target_date.month != value_date.month or target_date.day != value_date.day or target_date.hour != value_date.hour or target_date.minute != value_date.minute:
              return False
          if target[i][1] != value[i][1]:
              return False
          if target[i][2] != value[i][2]:
              return False
          if target[i][3] != value[i][3]:
              return False
          if target[i][4] != value[i][4]:
              return False
  
      return True
  
  class test(unittest.TestCase):
  
      def setUp(self):
          self.cal = pdt.Calendar()
          self.yr, self.mth, self.dy, self.hr, self.mn, self.sec, self.wd, self.yd, self.isdst = time.localtime()
  
      def testNlp(self):
          # note: these tests do not need to be as dynamic as the others because this is still based
          #       on the parse() function, so all tests of the actual processing of the datetime
          #       value returned are applicable to this. Here we are concerned with ensuring the
          #       correct portions of text and their positions are extracted and processed.
          start  = datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 1, 21, 25, 0).timetuple()
          target = ((datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 5, 20, 0), 3, 17, 37, 'At 8PM on August 5th'),
                    (datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 9, 21, 0), 2, 72, 90, 'next Friday at 9PM'),
                    (datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 1, 21, 30, 0), 2, 120, 132, 'in 5 minutes'))
  
          self.assertTrue(_compareResults(self.cal.nlp("I'm so excited!! At 8PM on August 5th i'm going to fly to Florida"
                                                       ". Then next Friday at 9PM i'm going to Dog n Bone! And in 5 "
                                                       "minutes I'm going to eat some food!", start), target))
  
          target = datetime.datetime(self.yr, self.mth, self.dy, 17, 0, 0).timetuple()
subject: test for nlp() function to ensure future changes don't break it