[Python-Dev] dateutil

[Greg Ewing]

Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer at conectiva.com>:

> We might even get some constants like:
> 
> end_of_month = relativedelta(day=31)
> 
> So that one might do "d+end_of_month".

That reads like nonsense. When I find the end of a month,
I am not "adding the end of the month" to the date.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that this whole
thing is an abuse of the '+' operator.

By the way, can you subtract relativedeltas as well as
add them? If '+' makes sense, '-' should make sense, too.

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