string to date parser

src/utils/stringtodate.py

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+# import qdate
+from PyQt6 import QtCore
+
+
+def stringToDate(date: str) -> QtCore.QDate:
+    """Takes an input string and returns a QDate object.
+
+    Args:
+        date (str): the string of the date in the database, format: WDay Month Day Year
+
+    Returns:
+        QtCore.QDate: the QDate object in string format DD.MM.yyyy
+    """
+
+    datedata = date.split(" ")[1:]
+    month = datedata[0]
+    day = datedata[1]
+    year = datedata[2]
+    month = month.replace("Jan", "01")
+    month = month.replace("Feb", "02")
+    month = month.replace("Mar", "03")
+    month = month.replace("Apr", "04")
+    month = month.replace("May", "05")
+    month = month.replace("Jun", "06")
+    month = month.replace("Jul", "07")
+    month = month.replace("Aug", "08")
+    month = month.replace("Sep", "09")
+    month = month.replace("Oct", "10")
+    month = month.replace("Nov", "11")
+    month = month.replace("Dec", "12")
+    return QtCore.QDate(int(year), int(month), int(day)).toString("dd.MM.yyyy")