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Re: datetime as subclass of date

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Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Makes sense, since ‘datetime’ can do everything ‘date’ can do, and
> > is conceptually a subset of the same concept.
>
> That's reasonable, but given that, it's weird that date(2014, 1, 23) == 
> datetime(2014, 1, 23) is False.  You would think it should be True, in 
> the same way that 1 + 0j == 1 is True.

Hmm. It does make sense to me that ‘datetime.date(2014, 1, 23) ==
datetime.datetime(2014, 1, 23)’.

I can come up with rationalisations for why it isn't, but they're not
satisfactory. I also don't consider it a bug, though. I'm conflicted :-)

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Re: datetime as subclass of date Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-24 09:14 +1100
  Re: datetime as subclass of date Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-23 19:10 -0500
    Re: datetime as subclass of date Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-24 17:54 +1100
    Re: datetime as subclass of date Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-01-24 10:03 -0600

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