[Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Thu Apr 16 12:16:15 CEST 2009

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:54, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> wrote:

In my opinion: arithmetic with months is a mess. There is no such "month interval" or "year interval" with a precise definition. If we adopt some kind of month manipulation, it should be a function or a method, like you would do for features like lastdayofmonth(d), or followingweekday(d, 'monday').

 date(2008, 1, 30).addmonths(1) == date(2008, 2, 29)

I concur. Trying to shoehorn month arithmetic into timedelta is a PITA, precisely because it's somewhat inexact. It's better to have some separate behavior that has well-defined behavior in edge cases.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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