[New-bugs-announce] [issue41750] unpractical printing of datetimes by the interpreter

[J Rt]

New submission from J Rt <jean.rblt at gmail.com>:

I think the way datetimes get printed by the interpreter is a bit unpractical. For example:

datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 9, 8, 0, tzinfo=<UTC>) 

The reason for the inpracticality is that this cannot be put right into python back:

>>>datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 9, 8, 0, tzinfo=<UTC>)                                             
  File "<ipython-input-77-304f010bd0d1>", line 1
    datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 9, 8, 0, tzinfo=<UTC>)
                                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Would there be a way to make the output printed directly usable again in the interpreter? Printing datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 9, 8, 0, tzinfo=pytz.utc) for example, or something like that?

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 376626
nosy: jean.rblt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: unpractical printing of datetimes by the interpreter
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7

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