Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you feel "next Tuesday plus 12 hours" means? ;-) > > First thought: It's nonsense! Nobody would say that. ;) > > Second though: Tuesday noon (12h after the beginning of Tuesday)
I agree with you entirely. Your suggestions correspond to 'throw an exception' and 'return a datetime'. Note that in the second case you are agreeing with me that a date means midnight at the start of that date ;-) Python datetime disagrees with us both. It basically says 'add the timedelta to midnight at the start of the date, then return just the date part of the result'. I assume there is some reason for this surprising behaviour. But this is another example of where datetime is taking a pragmatic approach in an ambiguous situation - exactly as I am suggesting in the situation of comparing a date and a datetime. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
