date parsing: Better accept standard subscribable pages spec

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/zachwalk.py b/zachwalk.py
index 145c174..1588449 100755
--- a/zachwalk.py
+++ b/zachwalk.py
@@ -37,13 +37,16 @@ def gnd(fp):
      if type(line) != str:
        line=line.decode('UTF-8')
      if line.strip()[0:2] == '=>':
+      desc =getdesc(line)
       try:
-        desc =getdesc(line)
-        desc=desc.split(':')[0] #this should only have 1 'datey' part
-        date = parse(desc,fuzzy=True).date()
-        # todo: read lots of these and compare them
+        date = parse(desc[0:10],fuzzy=True).date()
         return date
       except:
+        try:
+          date = parse(desc,fuzzy=True).date()
+          return date
+        except:
+          pass
         pass
     return DEFAULT