https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6c417e44c995eb57e8266e18eb8aeeb2ba0e61ac commit: 6c417e44c995eb57e8266e18eb8aeeb2ba0e61ac branch: main author: edson duarte <[email protected]> committer: hugovk <[email protected]> date: 2026-03-01T13:59:02+02:00 summary:
gh-140715: Improve class reference links on datetime.rst (#123980) Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/datetime.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index f27844c98ccff6..ebe3c3576c0979 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ understand and to work with, at the cost of ignoring some aspects of reality. For applications requiring aware objects, :class:`.datetime` and :class:`.time` objects have an optional time zone information attribute, :attr:`!tzinfo`, that -can be set to an instance of a subclass of the abstract :class:`tzinfo` class. +can be set to an instance of a subclass of the abstract :class:`!tzinfo` class. These :class:`tzinfo` objects capture information about the offset from UTC time, the time zone name, and whether daylight saving time is in effect. @@ -432,9 +432,9 @@ objects (see below). .. versionchanged:: 3.2 Floor division and true division of a :class:`timedelta` object by another - :class:`timedelta` object are now supported, as are remainder operations and + :class:`!timedelta` object are now supported, as are remainder operations and the :func:`divmod` function. True division and multiplication of a - :class:`timedelta` object by a :class:`float` object are now supported. + :class:`!timedelta` object by a :class:`float` object are now supported. :class:`timedelta` objects support equality and order comparisons. @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ Notes: In other words, ``date1 < date2`` if and only if ``date1.toordinal() < date2.toordinal()``. - Order comparison between a :class:`!date` object that is not also a + Order comparison between a :class:`date` object that is not also a :class:`.datetime` instance and a :class:`!datetime` object raises :exc:`TypeError`. @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ from a :class:`date` object and a :class:`.time` object. Like a :class:`date` object, :class:`.datetime` assumes the current Gregorian calendar extended in both directions; like a :class:`.time` object, -:class:`.datetime` assumes there are exactly 3600\*24 seconds in every day. +:class:`!datetime` assumes there are exactly 3600\*24 seconds in every day. Constructor: @@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ Other constructors, all class methods: are equal to the given :class:`.time` object's. If the *tzinfo* argument is provided, its value is used to set the :attr:`.tzinfo` attribute of the result, otherwise the :attr:`~.time.tzinfo` attribute of the *time* argument - is used. If the *date* argument is a :class:`.datetime` object, its time components + is used. If the *date* argument is a :class:`!datetime` object, its time components and :attr:`.tzinfo` attributes are ignored. For any :class:`.datetime` object ``d``, @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ Supported operations: datetime, and no time zone adjustments are done even if the input is aware. (3) - Subtraction of a :class:`.datetime` from a :class:`.datetime` is defined only if + Subtraction of a :class:`.datetime` from a :class:`!datetime` is defined only if both operands are naive, or if both are aware. If one is aware and the other is naive, :exc:`TypeError` is raised. @@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ Supported operations: :class:`.datetime` objects are equal if they represent the same date and time, taking into account the time zone. - Naive and aware :class:`!datetime` objects are never equal. + Naive and aware :class:`.datetime` objects are never equal. If both comparands are aware, and have the same :attr:`!tzinfo` attribute, the :attr:`!tzinfo` and :attr:`~.datetime.fold` attributes are ignored and @@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ Supported operations: If both comparands are aware and have different :attr:`~.datetime.tzinfo` attributes, the comparison acts as comparands were first converted to UTC datetimes except that the implementation never overflows. - :class:`!datetime` instances in a repeated interval are never equal to + :class:`.datetime` instances in a repeated interval are never equal to :class:`!datetime` instances in other time zone. (5) @@ -1529,7 +1529,7 @@ Instance methods: Naive :class:`.datetime` instances are assumed to represent local time and this method relies on platform C functions to perform - the conversion. Since :class:`.datetime` supports a wider range of + the conversion. Since :class:`!datetime` supports a wider range of values than the platform C functions on many platforms, this method may raise :exc:`OverflowError` or :exc:`OSError` for times far in the past or far in the future. @@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ Instance methods: Return a new :class:`.time` with the same values, but with specified parameters updated. Note that ``tzinfo=None`` can be specified to create a - naive :class:`.time` from an aware :class:`.time`, without conversion of the + naive :class:`!time` from an aware :class:`!time`, without conversion of the time data. :class:`.time` objects are also supported by generic function @@ -2139,14 +2139,14 @@ Examples of working with a :class:`.time` object:: An instance of (a concrete subclass of) :class:`tzinfo` can be passed to the constructors for :class:`.datetime` and :class:`.time` objects. The latter objects - view their attributes as being in local time, and the :class:`tzinfo` object + view their attributes as being in local time, and the :class:`!tzinfo` object supports methods revealing offset of local time from UTC, the name of the time zone, and DST offset, all relative to a date or time object passed to them. You need to derive a concrete subclass, and (at least) supply implementations of the standard :class:`tzinfo` methods needed by the :class:`.datetime` methods you use. The :mod:`!datetime` module provides - :class:`timezone`, a simple concrete subclass of :class:`tzinfo` which can + :class:`timezone`, a simple concrete subclass of :class:`!tzinfo` which can represent time zones with fixed offset from UTC such as UTC itself or North American EST and EDT. @@ -2209,11 +2209,11 @@ Examples of working with a :class:`.time` object:: ``tz.utcoffset(dt) - tz.dst(dt)`` must return the same result for every :class:`.datetime` *dt* with ``dt.tzinfo == - tz``. For sane :class:`tzinfo` subclasses, this expression yields the time + tz``. For sane :class:`!tzinfo` subclasses, this expression yields the time zone's "standard offset", which should not depend on the date or the time, but only on geographic location. The implementation of :meth:`datetime.astimezone` relies on this, but cannot detect violations; it's the programmer's - responsibility to ensure it. If a :class:`tzinfo` subclass cannot guarantee + responsibility to ensure it. If a :class:`!tzinfo` subclass cannot guarantee this, it may be able to override the default implementation of :meth:`tzinfo.fromutc` to work correctly with :meth:`~.datetime.astimezone` regardless. @@ -2250,17 +2250,17 @@ Examples of working with a :class:`.time` object:: valid replies. Return ``None`` if a string name isn't known. Note that this is a method rather than a fixed string primarily because some :class:`tzinfo` subclasses will wish to return different names depending on the specific value - of *dt* passed, especially if the :class:`tzinfo` class is accounting for + of *dt* passed, especially if the :class:`!tzinfo` class is accounting for daylight time. The default implementation of :meth:`tzname` raises :exc:`NotImplementedError`. These methods are called by a :class:`.datetime` or :class:`.time` object, in -response to their methods of the same names. A :class:`.datetime` object passes -itself as the argument, and a :class:`.time` object passes ``None`` as the +response to their methods of the same names. A :class:`!datetime` object passes +itself as the argument, and a :class:`!time` object passes ``None`` as the argument. A :class:`tzinfo` subclass's methods should therefore be prepared to -accept a *dt* argument of ``None``, or of class :class:`.datetime`. +accept a *dt* argument of ``None``, or of class :class:`!datetime`. When ``None`` is passed, it's up to the class designer to decide the best response. For example, returning ``None`` is appropriate if the class wishes to @@ -2268,10 +2268,10 @@ say that time objects don't participate in the :class:`tzinfo` protocols. It may be more useful for ``utcoffset(None)`` to return the standard UTC offset, as there is no other convention for discovering the standard offset. -When a :class:`.datetime` object is passed in response to a :class:`.datetime` +When a :class:`.datetime` object is passed in response to a :class:`!datetime` method, ``dt.tzinfo`` is the same object as *self*. :class:`tzinfo` methods can -rely on this, unless user code calls :class:`tzinfo` methods directly. The -intent is that the :class:`tzinfo` methods interpret *dt* as being in local +rely on this, unless user code calls :class:`!tzinfo` methods directly. The +intent is that the :class:`!tzinfo` methods interpret *dt* as being in local time, and not need worry about objects in other time zones. There is one more :class:`tzinfo` method that a subclass may wish to override: @@ -2381,7 +2381,7 @@ Note that the :class:`.datetime` instances that differ only by the value of the Applications that can't bear wall-time ambiguities should explicitly check the value of the :attr:`~.datetime.fold` attribute or avoid using hybrid :class:`tzinfo` subclasses; there are no ambiguities when using :class:`timezone`, -or any other fixed-offset :class:`tzinfo` subclass (such as a class representing +or any other fixed-offset :class:`!tzinfo` subclass (such as a class representing only EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)). .. seealso:: _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
