oddities in the datetime module

[Serge Orlov]

Max M wrote:
> # -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
>
> """
>
> I am currently using the datetime package, but I find that the design
> is oddly
> asymmetric. I would like to know why. Or perhaps I have misunderstood
> how it should be used?

Yes, you did. datetime.timetuple is those who want *time module* format, you should use datetime.data, datetime.time, datetime.year 
and so on...

[snip a lot of timetuple wrestling]
> The other way around is also easy.
>
>>>> dt = datetime(2005, 1, 1, 12, 0, 0)
>>>> date(*dt.timetuple()[:3])
> datetime.date(2005, 1, 1)

As they say, if the only tool you have is timetuple, everything looks like tuple <wink>

Try this:

>>> dt = datetime(2005, 1, 1, 12, 0, 0)
>>> dt.date()
datetime.date(2005, 1, 1)

  Serge.