First: Thanks for writing and publishing a cool package!

I started using todotxtio for a little project of mine where I needed something to parse my todo.txt and while playing around with it I noticed that Todo objects are not comparable and thus can't easily be sorted using list.sort() or sorted(). Since this was functionality I was missing I implemented a very rough and NOT production/pull ready sketch of this using functools total_ordering decorator.

Only afterwards I read Issue #2, which I interpret to mean that not adding comparability was intentional and so I figured I open up a new issue and, well, ask:

Is the fact that Todo objects are not comparable to each other the way things are supposed to work or would you accept a PR to add that functionality?

I wrote this up, then noticed @MaurizioBruetsch had a merge request for "Fix creation_date bug #14" Perhaps this is the same issue. Perhaps this has value as a demonstration of the issue.

Using todotxtio 0.2.3

If the todo has a priority assigned and a creation_date, the creation_date is loaded with None.

My code reduced to a simple example:

todo_creation_date_bug.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

todofile = 'todo_creation_date_bug.txt'

import sys
import todotxtio

todos = todotxtio.from_file(todofile)

for todo in todos:
   print(todo, todo.creation_date)

todo_creation_date_bug.txt

(A) 2019-12-31 task with priority, creation date
2019-12-31 task with no priority, creation date
(A) task with priority, no creation date
task with no priority, no creation date

run it

$ ./todo_creation_date_bug.py
(A) task with priority, creation date None
2019-12-31 task with no priority, creation date 2019-12-31
(A) task with priority, no creation date None
task with no priority, no creation date None
$ 

analysis

The first line was: (A) task with priority, creation date None
I expected: (A) task with priority, creation date 2019-12-31

Let's assume i have the following task:
2018-05-19 +read webpage http://todotxt.org/ +background

todotxtio recognizes the project background very well, but it does not recognize read as a project. This is due to the regular expression, which needs a space in front of a project/context.
It seems that during parsing of tasks this is not given, if the project/context is directly at the beginning of a task or if the project/context directly followings a date.

Also rename the "todos" notion to "tasks".

I just pasted an ebay URL, which got recognized as tag, i guess.

It was a task with the URL https://my.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayBeta&CurrentPage=MyeBayNextSold&ssPageName=STRK:ME:LNLK:MESOX

When i added the task everything seemed okay, but then i saved and reloaded and after the reload the URL was gone.

Dear developers,

I regret to inform you this project is abandoned and is no longer maintained, it has thus been archived. I no longer have interest for the Todo.txt file format.

Feel free to create a fork, publish on PyPI or whatever you want as long as it's complying with the license.

Thanks to the past contributors.

Best regards,

Maxime

Using pytest.