Movie.releasedate is an empty unicode string (u'') if no date is available

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Movie.releasedate is an empty unicode string (u'') if no date is available

[wagnerrp]

At the moment, all datapoints, if not defined otherwise, are handled as a unicode string and default to u''. Releasedate is configured to be handled as a date string, but is not given a proper default.

releasedate = Datapoint('release_date', handler=process_date)

The Person dates are configured how you are expecting.

dayofbirth = Datapoint('birthday', default=None, handler=process_date)
dayofdeath = Datapoint('deathday', default=None, handler=process_date)

There's a number of instances of this with values that should probably be handled as an integer or float. I'll need to go through and clean them up.