Still the __new__ hell ...

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:17:11 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers 
>
> [snip]
>
>And what if it's a unicode string ?
>The correct idiom here is:
>                  if isinstance(year, basestring):
>
>> 			year,month,day=map(int,string.split(year,'-'))
>                         year, month, day = map(int, year.split('-'))

And what if it's another kind of string?  The correct idiom is:

   try:
       parts = year.split('-')
   except AttributeError:
       # Handle int case
   else:
       year, month, day = map(int, parts)

>
>> 		if year < 100:
>> 			year += 2000
>> 		return date.__new__(cls,year,month,day)
>>
>(snip)
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