quiz help: passing various date formats to return a file path described by a date format

My first questions is... can I not plug a method like re.match into an if statement, and if matched return something truthy??? I feel like I may have never fully grasped the truthy concept and I feel like I really need to understand it with this problem because I first tried an if statement asking if re.match == date. But a match object cannot be compared to the argument passed in. Or can it??

Im testing this code by passing the argument '2000-01-01' it starts going to the else block but i feel like it should never get that far.

My second question is.. am I making this way harder than it really is supposed to be? Is there a clue that you might be able to give me without giving me the answer?

And finally... What is the answer?

import os
import re
import datetime

def create_daily_dir(date):
    if re.match('\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d', date) == True:
        return os.makedirs(f'financial/{date}')
    else:
        dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%d-%m-%Y')
        return os.makedirs(f'financial/{dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")}')


create_daily_dir('2000-01-01')