updated the dateparsing function

myTodoist.py

@@ -4,23 +4,26 @@ from datetime import date,  time, datetime, timedelta
 import gi
 gi.require_version('Gio', '2.0')
 from gi.repository import Gio
+import re
 
 
-##@brief Simple function to parse string from api to a datetimeformat.
-# @param datastr String with date
-# @return datetime object with date as specified in string.
-def makedatetime(datestr):
-    if datestr == None:
-        return None
-    return datetime.strptime(datestr,"%Y-%m-%d")
-
 ##@brief Simple function to parse iso formated string from api to a datetimeformat.
 # @param datastr String with date and time in iso format
 # @return datetime object with date as specified in string.
 def fromisoformat(datestr):
     if datestr == None:
         return None
-    return datetime.strptime(datestr,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
+    # Matches on YYYY-MM-DD, does not check if date is in range. Ex: 2019-11-08
+    if (re.match(r'^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$',datestr, 0) != None):
+        return datetime.strptime(datestr,"%Y-%m-%d")
+    # Matches on YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ, does not check if date is in range. Ex: 2019-11-08T15:45:02Z
+    if (re.match(r'^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}Z$',datestr, 0) != None):
+        return datetime.strptime(datestr,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
+    # Matches on YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, does not check if date is in range. Ex: 2019-11-08T15:45:02
+    if (re.match(r'^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}$',datestr, 0) != None):
+        return datetime.strptime(datestr,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
+    else:
+        return None
 
 class TodoProject:
     ''' Common class for api calls'''
@@ -174,7 +177,7 @@ class TodoItem:
         self._due = item["due"]
         #check if due is set.
         if self._due != None:
-            self.due_date = makedatetime(self._due["date"])
+            self.due_date = fromisoformat(self._due["date"])
             self.due_timezone = self._due["timezone"]
             self.due_string = self._due["string"]
             self.due_lang = self._due["lang"]