On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings All! > > I am implementing a NullDate class in order to mirror dates and datetimes > that have no value (yes, this is for my dbf module :) > > I'm still a bit fuzzy about class methods, hashing, and __new__, but my > question of the moment is this: it seems to me that with two dates or > datetimes, they should either be equal, or one should precede the other, and > this can be accomplished quite handily with __cmp__... so does anyone know > why the rich comparisons were used in the datetime module? Was it simply a > style choice, or is something being handled that __cmp__ couldn't cope with?
Probably because __cmp__ was removed in Python 3.0, thus requiring the use of the rich comparison methods in its place. See the earlier thread entitled "Python 3 __cmp__ semantic change?". Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com > > Thanks in advance! > ~ethan~ > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
