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[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] datetime module enhancements

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Mar 12 23:49:51 CET 2007 
On 3/12/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Jim Jewett wrote:
> > It would be OK with me to raise an error (ValueError?) on "dt <= d" if
> > "dt in d".   Others might feel differently, and prefer to always get
> > the TypeError -- which is probably why dt<t doesn't already do the
> > obvious thing.
>
> Seems to me that given all the conflicting behaviours
> peole want this to have in different circumstances,
> refusing to compare dates and datetimes is the right
> thing to do.

Right. A lot of thought went into this when the original design was done.

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