Hi all,
I recently attempted to subclass the datetime.date object resulting in
horror and confusion, before submitting to a has-a relationship.
That's all fine and dandy, but out of curiosity I'd like to know what
I'm missing.
I was attempting to allow more flexible instancing of an object, like
so:
import datetime
class MyDate(datetime.date):
def __init__(self,*args,**kw):
if len(kw) + len(args) > 1:
self.construct(*args,**kw)
def construct(self,d,m=None,y=None,**kw):
today = datetime.date.today()
if m is None:
m = today.month
if y is None:
y = today.year
datetime.date.__init__(self,y,m,d,**kw)
However, it wasn't having the desired effect. Indeed, I could still
only instance it with 3 variables lest I get errors, and when I did
call it with 3 variables it didn't reflect the order change I had
implemented. Indeed, the properties were already set before it even
got to the construct method.
Is there some kind of built in I'm missing here?
Thanks all,
Will
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