Fuzzy parser fails if string starts with "p" in some cases

Code like the following:

test_string = """p
   This is a test with a date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012"""
date = parser.parse(test_string, fuzzy=True)

returns something similar to this:

          File "/home/blahblah/code.py", line 33, in parse
            date = parser.parse(event_info, fuzzy=True)
          File "/home/blahblah//lib/python2.6/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 720, in parse
            return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs)
          File "/home/blahblah/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 308, in parse
            res = self._parse(timestr, **kwargs)
          File "/home/blahblah/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 575, in _parse
            res.hour += 12
        exceptions.TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +=: 'NoneType' and 'int'

Removing the newline then causes it to work:

event_info = """pThis is a test with a date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012"""

Other characters directly after the "p", such as a space, or ">", will also cause it to fail