inheriting from datetime

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-08-01, Rob Conner <rtconner at gmail.com> wrote:

> So this is simple, why can't I run the following code? I've tried many
> variances of this, but simply cannot inherit from datetime or
> datetime.datetime. I get this on line 3.
> TypeError: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)

I think I posted this question a while back and the problem was
that a datetime instance is not mutable, so the normal method
of deriving a class didn't work....

A quick google...

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5f2517ecf6fb2ce/

You need to override __new__ rather than __init__

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