But what if they are used intentionally as "impossible" or sentinel values?
--Guido (on Android) On Jun 19, 2010 2:37 PM, "Alexander Belopolsky" < alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > While datetime range is limited to years from 1 through 9999, it is > possible to produce time tuple with year 0 or year 10,000: > >>>> t1 = datetime.min.replace(tzinfo=timezone.max) >>>> t2 = datetime.max.replace(tzinfo=timezone.min) >>>> t1.utctimetuple().tm_year > 0 >>>> t2.utctimetuple().tm_year > 10000 > > Most if not all functions consuming timetuples are not designed to > handle years beyond 9999 and such timetuples cannot be converted back > to datetime. > > I would like to make utctimetuple() method to raise OverflowError on > values like t1 or t2 above. These values are most certainly a mistake > in application ad it is better to detect them earlier before they make > their way into system functions that cannot handle them. > > See issues 9005 and 6608 on the tracker. > > http://bugs.python.org/issue9005 > http://bugs.python.org/issue6608 > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org
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