Overloading ctor doesn't work?

[Francis Girard]

Wow !
Now, this is serious. I tried all sort of things but can't solve the problem.
I'm mystified too and forget my last reply.
I'm curious to see the answers.
Francis Girard
Le jeudi 20 Janvier 2005 19:59, Kent Johnson a écrit :
> > Martin Häcker wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I just tried to run this code and failed miserably - though I dunno
> >> why. Could any of you please enlighten me why this doesn't work?
>
> Here is a simpler test case. I'm mystified too:
>
> from datetime import datetime
>
> class time (datetime):
>    def __init__(self, hours=0, minutes=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0):
>      datetime.__init__(self, 2001, 10, 31, hours, minutes, seconds,
> microseconds)
>
> print time(1,2,3,4) # => 0001-02-03 04:00:00
> print time()        # => TypeError: function takes at least 3 arguments (0
> given)
>
>
> What happens to the default arguments to time.__init__? What happens to the
> 2001, 10, 31 arguments to datetime.__init__?
>
> I would expect the output to be
> 2001-10-31 01:02:03.000004
> 2001-10-31 00:00:00.000000
>
> Kent