[Python-Dev] dateutil

[Greg Ewing]

Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer at conectiva.com>:

> (just as examples)
> 
> d + relativedelta(day=1)
> d + relativedelta(day=31)

Sorry, but the more I see of this usage the worse it looks. Here
you're effectively using '+' as an assignment operator. To me, that's
a gross abuse of the Python language.

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