[Python-ideas] datetime module enhancements

[Steven Bethard]

On 3/12/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> datetime before date: <
> datetime during date: in
> datetime after date: >

> datetime <= date and datetime => date should raise a TypeError. The
> result is ambiguous. A date with time is never equal to a date.

Jim Jewett wrote:
> As a practical matter, sorting uses <=

Are you sure?

    >>> class C(object):
    ...     def __init__(self, x):
    ...         self.x = x
    ...     def __lt__(self, other):
    ...         return self.x < other.x
    ...     def __le__(self, other):
    ...         raise TypeError()
    ...     def __repr__(self):
    ...         return 'C(%r)' % self.x
    ...
    >>> sorted([C(3), C(2), C(1)])
    [C(1), C(2), C(3)]


Looks like it's just using < to me.

(And thanks to Collin and Christian for jumping on the patch already.)

STeVe
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