Whither datetime.date ?

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

I'm confused.  I was going to try linkchecker, and it dies with a
traceback ending in

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/calendar.py", line 32, in _localized_month
    _months = [datetime.date(2001, i+1, 1).strftime for i in range(12)]
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'date'

Sure enough, there is no datetime.date, but there is a datetime.Date:

Python 2.4 (#2, Feb 19 2005, 20:35:23)
[GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import datetime
>>> dir(datetime)
['Date', 'DateTime', ...]

However, the Library Reference clearly states that datetime.date
should exist.  Granted, it's been a while since I used python in
anger, but isn't this what it says?

  http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/node243.html
  http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/datetime-date.html

Moreover, the datetime.date class is supposed to have a strftime()
method.  datetime.Date does not.

I'm beginning to wonder if the FreeBSD python package is at fault.

Or what is really going on here?

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* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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