zachwalk: remove dateutil dependency HEAD master

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/zachwalk.py b/zachwalk.py
index da03aaf..a77acad 100755
--- a/zachwalk.py
+++ b/zachwalk.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 """load links from a gemini file and output the latest date for each one"""
 __author__ = "Zach DeCook"
 __email__ = "zachdecook@librem.one"
-__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2021 Zach DeCook"
+__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Zach DeCook"
 __license__ = "AGPL"
 __version__ = "3"
 
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ import sys
 import socket
 import ssl
 import fileinput
-from dateutil.parser import parse
 
-DEFAULT = parse('1970-01-01').date()
+DEFAULT = "1970-01-01"
 
 def getnewestdate(url):
     """load the url, and find the newest date listed in a link"""
@@ -39,28 +38,18 @@ def gnd(fp):
        line=line.decode('UTF-8')
      if line.strip()[0:2] == '=>':
       desc =getdesc(line)
-      try:
-        date = parse(desc[0:10],fuzzy=True).date()
-        if date > nd:
-          nd = date
-      except:
-        try:
-          date = parse(desc,fuzzy=True).date()
-          if date > nd:
-            nd = date
-        except:
-          pass
-        pass
+      date = desc[0:10]
+      # basic check if it is a date
+      if isDate(date) and date > nd:
+        nd = date
     return nd
 
 def replaceDateIfNewer(desc, newestdate):
-    try:
-     tup = parse(desc, fuzzy_with_tokens=True)
-     date = tup[0].date()
-    except:
+    date = desc[0:10]
+    if not isDate(date):
         return f'{newestdate} - {desc}'
     if newestdate > date:
-        return str(newestdate) + ' '.join(tup[1])
+        return str(newestdate) + desc[10:]
     return desc
 
 def main():
@@ -80,6 +69,9 @@ def main():
 def isAbsGeminiUrl(url):
     return url[0:9] == 'gemini://'
 
+def isDate(date):
+    return date[0:4].isnumeric() and date[5:7].isnumeric() and date[8:].isnumeric()
+
 def getdesc(line):
   return ' '.join(line[2:].strip().replace('	',' ').split(' ')[1:]).lstrip()