[Python-Dev] datetime module enhancements (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 23:37:56 CET 2007

On 3/11/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Jon Ribbens schrieb: > I see you snipped without response my request to back up your claim > that "assuming that a date() is a datetime() with a time of midnight > will clearly break that logic".

I've another idea. Date and datetime objects are compared by date. The date object for a given date is always smaller than the datetime for the same day - even for midnight.

I really don't understand what the problem is with having a date() behave like a proper temporal interval. The only person complaining about that interpretation acknowledged that for his purposes, it would be better than the status quo. And I have yet to see a use case where being consistent with temporal interval logic is a problem.

STeVe

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