New submission from Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdo...@gmail.com>: Instances of datetime.datetime don't seem to have the '__module__' attribute even though the datetime class itself does.
This seems to contradict Section 3.2 of the Python documentation about the standard type hierarchy (in the subsection called "Class instances"): http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy "A class instance has a namespace implemented as a dictionary which is the first place in which attribute references are searched. When an attribute is not found there, and the instance’s class has an attribute by that name, the search continues with the class attributes." Instances of other classes defined in the standard library do have the attribute. The session below illustrates the issue: Python 3.3.0a4 (v3.3.0a4:7c51388a3aa7, May 30 2012, 16:58:42) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.__module__ 'datetime' >>> d = datetime(2000, 1, 1) >>> d.__class__ <class 'datetime.datetime'> >>> d.__module__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'datetime.datetime' object has no attribute '__module__' ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 164332 nosy: cjerdonek priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: datetime instances lack __module__ attribute type: behavior versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15223> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
