[Python-Dev] Interop between datetime and mxDateTime (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond@skippinet.com.au
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:57:01 +1100

[Guido]

The proposal also recomments an abstract base type, "basetime", for all time types. Without this, cmp() is hard to do (see Tim's post for explanation; we don't want datetime objects to be comparable to objects with arbitrary other types, because the default comparison iss meaningless).

This could be a pure "marker" type, like "basestring". Marc-Andre, if we export basetime from the core, can mxDateTime subclass from that?

I have the exact same issue for my COM time objects, and like MAL, just recently started thinking about it.

Certainly, such a subclass would help me enormously, and would probably make it quite simple for this to allow any datetime object to be passed to COM/Windows functions. If we can do the same for MAL (ie, a Python datetime magically works anywhere an mxDateTime did before), then this would be a real bonus :)

Mark.