Help with Pymongo API

So the issue is the following... Im testing out the API for flask application using MongoDB with PyMongo. Im doing an app.route to make a query based on a certain date, the code looks as following:

@app.route('/active_jobs/<jobdate>', methods = ['GET']) def get_a_date(jobdate):

ajobs = mongo.db.ajobs

output = []

for q in ajobs.find({'jobdate':jobdate}):

    output.append ({
    'jobdate' : q['jobdate'], 'jobtime' : q['jobtime'],'plant': q['plant'],
    'po': q['po'], 'company': q['company'], 'client': q['client'],
    'jobaddress': q['jobaddress'], 'm3': q['m3'], 'use': q['use'],
    'formula': q['formula'], 'placement': q['placement'],
    'badmix1': q['badmix1'], 'badmix2': q['badmix2'], 'badmix3': q['badmix3'],
    'confirmation': q['confirmation'],'status': q['status']
    })

return jsonify({'result' : output})

Postman does not mark any errors, it just displays an empty 'result' json object.

Now I believe the issue has something to do with the date object format, because if I do the following query in the mongo shell with quotation marks wrapped around the date, it gives me back the results as expected:

db.ajobs.find({'jobdate': "2016-09-08"})

Any help would be much appreciated.