✨ use dateutil.parse to parse SQLite dates

pyproject.toml

@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "Click>=8.1.3",
     "mysql-connector-python==8.4.0",
     "pytimeparse2",
+    "python-dateutil>=2.9.0.post0",
+    "types_python_dateutil",
     "python-slugify>=7.0.0",
     "simplejson>=3.19.0",
     "tqdm>=4.65.0",

requirements_dev.txt

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ pytest-cov
 pytest-mock
 pytest-timeout
 pytimeparse2
+python-dateutil>=2.9.0.post0
+types_python_dateutil
 python-slugify>=7.0.0
 types-python-slugify
 simplejson>=3.19.1

src/mysql_to_sqlite3/sqlite_utils.py

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 from datetime import date, timedelta
 from decimal import Decimal
 
+from dateutil.parser import ParserError
+from dateutil.parser import parse as dateutil_parse
 from pytimeparse2 import parse
 
 
@@ -46,11 +48,11 @@
     RTRIM: str = "RTRIM"
 
 
-def convert_date(value: t.Any) -> date:
+def convert_date(value: t.Union[str, bytes]) -> date:
     """Handle SQLite date conversion."""
     try:
-        return date.fromisoformat(value.decode())
-    except ValueError as err:
+        return dateutil_parse(value.decode() if isinstance(value, bytes) else value).date()
+    except ParserError as err:
         raise ValueError(f"DATE field contains {err}")  # pylint: disable=W0707