On 3/10/07, Robert Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/9/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On the subject of datetime enhancements, I came > > > across an SF patch (#1673403) the other day that > > > proposed making it possible to compare date and > > > datetime objects. > > > > One solution that just occurred to me -- and that > > skirts the issue of choosing an interpretation -- > > is that, when comparing date and datetime objects, > > the datetime's .date() method is called and the > > result of that call is compared to the original > > date. That is, > > > > datetime_obj < date_obj > > > > is implicitly equivalent to > > > > datetime_obj.date() < date_obj > > > > Seems a ready-made use case for that method. > > +1 > > ...and it's a decision that can be made independently > of how to add or subtract dates.
That's what I thought, until Steve Bethard set me straight: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071803.html I'm going to defer to him on this. Collin Winter _______________________________________________ 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
